Author: Styx

Format: Enhanced

PartNumber: 060768633728

Release Date: 01-09-2016

Details: Amazon.caCyclorama is an unexpectedly appealing comeback. Sure, theres still no shortage of excessively filigreed keyboard and guitar passages, anthemic choruses that make Queen sound laid back, and at least one song (the nearly seven-minute “These Are the Times”) that threatens to summon the spirit of Stonehenge-era Spinal Tap. Yet, somehow, all that is forgiven once Styx sneaks up on you with the killer hooks of the Tenacious D-assisted “Kiss Your Ass Goodbye,” a power-pop gem with the verve of classic Cheap Trick. Its these and other small pleasures–Brian Wilsons sumptuous vocal arrangement on a reprise of “Fooling Yourself (Palm of Your Hands),” Billy Bob Thorntons guttural yowling on “Bourgeois Pig,” and of course an appearance by John Waite (without whom no classic-rock party is complete)–that weak