Postmodern Masterpiece
Fossileyes is no less than the latest essential link in the apocalyptic progression which gives "progressive" rock its oft-derided name. Starting with King Crimson, then Henry Cow and the Art Bears, then Thinking Plague and now to The Red Masque, proceding from Crimson's eloquent doom to Cow's doctrinaire cautionairianism to early Plague's altogether more extroverted practicalism (e.g. "How to Clean Squid"), we get "progessively" deeper into the irony of our postmodern age, the oxymoron of which is the only thing preventing Fossileyes from perfection. The doom of postmodernism is simply that there can be no perfection in irony, the inevitable tension of which only adds to the total brilliance of this album. Download NOW !!!!!
