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Disc 1
01. A Man Of Thick Air
02. The Single
03. Unbranded
04. Modern
05. The Media Pirates
06. Promises of Life
07. Blues for Lear
08. Space Junk
09. Petroleum Addicts
Disc 2
01. Afterlifecycle Sequence
02. Embalmed In Acid
03. Four Egos One War
04. Fadge part one
05. A Kick In The Teeth
06. Unforgiving Skies
|  | PO90 - Parallel or 90 Degrees was formed officially in 1996 by Andy Tillison Diskdrive and Sam Baine. They are also the only origin members of the band. During the period from 1996 till 2001 they released 5 records. A Can of Worms is actually a compilation of older stuff. Some songs were recorded on previous records, other songs were never recorded at all. With A Can of Worms Po90 gives you almost 160 minutes progressive rock with influences of the prog rock of the 70th of the last century.
Diskdrive and Baine both are keyboard players. You can clearly hear the typical Hammond sound of the 70th. Although both grounders are keyboard players there is quite some guitar in the songs. Even though both cd’s take almost over 3 hour of music, there are only 15 tracks. Fagde part one last less then 4 minutes and is the shortest song of the album. Afterlifecycle Sequence is the contradiction of this track, it takes 28 minutes.
A Can of Worms is a sort of “best of” added with 5 previous unreleased songs. The album is quite varied, sometimes psychedelic (Man Of Thick Air), other times a mix of blues and jazz (Blues for Lear), then again AOR and even songs with dance influences (Afterlifecycle Sequence); but all songs can be labelled best as progressive rock songs.
Man Of Thick Air has a large guitar solo and great keyboard playing. Modern has heavy and somewhat dark riffs with a jamming guitar solo. The Media Pirates is more keyboards oriented with a subtle keyboard jamming session. Space Junk is quite hallucinating, it best can he heard with the headphones on.
Petroleum Addicts has all elements of a great prog rock song with a great solo, unfortunately after 11 minutes another song with another atmosphere is pasted against it; just skip this part.
Almost all songs on the second cd weren’t recorded before except the long Afterlifecycle Sequence. The other songs are worth listening absolutely. Four Egos One War is keyboard oriented prog rock song while Fadge part one is a progressive rock song that takes only 3: 32 minutes; most progressive metal riffs with a psychedelic atmosphere.
Hopefully A Can of Worms is the start of the second period of Parallel of 90 degrees, the music is worth it and quite interested for progressive rock fans.
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