Track Listing

1. Shock Treatment
2. Cut And Run
3. Arrive Alive
4. Rise And Fall
5. Eastwest
6. March On Atlantis
7. Rise And Fall
8. Heart Attack
9. Atlantis
10. Ark Of Infinity

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145915 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Better than you may imagine
On the whole a difficult album to judge in that the material varies quite widely in quality. However, I've given it four stars mainly due to the quite astonishing track 'Atlantis' which, in many ways, has perhaps every ingredient for a towering,symphonic prog song: banks of mellotron-like keys, other-wordly theme (as befits the piece), an epic sense of scale and an indefinable sense of timelessness. I've played this track periodically over the years and it has never failed to 'take me there'. As you might expect with 'Yes's old producer production values are good. The other tracks I should add are in some cases very good too - but to my mind do not compare to 'Atlantis'. Buy it if you're the kind of person who might consider IQ, Marillion, Jadis etc.

Take cover!! Prog attack..80's style!
For those who dont remember or didn't give a monkeys at the time, there was an uncomfatable prog revival in the eighties which spawned a gaggle of 'intelligent' acts who tried to mimmick the likes of Genesis and Yes among others. Marillion were far and away the most commercially sucessful, but bands like Scotlands Pallas had a worthwhile crack to. The Sentinal is a tribute to Yes in my view, right down to the artwork on the sleeve. This seems to be a semi concept album about Atlantis. Arguably the kind of idea that should have been laid to rest in the seventies, but neverthless some of the music is impressive. The thing that stops this being a complete Yes 'tribute' is the voice of Euan Lowson, nothing, thankfully like the bollock squashed squealings of a young Jon Anderson! Lowson had been renowned for his theatrics immediately attracting, possibly unfair, comparisons between himself and Peter Gabriel. He left the band after this album and was replaced by a Gabriel/Fishy frontman from prog hell. The band tightened their sound and produced the 'Wedge' album. The sentinal is a mixture of drama (Cut and run) and touching melodies (Ark of infinity) These melodies sometimes get a bit overbearing and a little too: ALL JOIN HANDS NOW, COME ON! This smacks of YES as does the processed Rickenbacker bass guitar sound, prominant throughout. Who's the producer?? Eddie Offord notheless, a production favourite of...yes you guessed it..'YES' Definelty worth a listern, though. Despite what many may have thought at the time, the eighties needed some prog in order to make sure that not everyone was sucked into the trivial world of yuppiedom and all the negative culture that accompanied that.

Take cover!! Prog attack..80's style!
For those who dont remember or didn't give a monkeys at the time, there was an uncomfatable prog revival in the eighties which spawned a gaggle of 'intelligent' acts who tried to mimmick the likes of Genesis and Yes among others. Marillion were far and away the most commercially sucessful, but bands like Scotlands Pallas had a worthwhile crack to. The Sentinal is a tribute to Yes in my view, right down to the artwork on the sleeve. This seems to be a semi concept album about Atlantis. Arguably the kind of idea that should have been laid to rest in the seventies, but neverthless some of the music is impressive. The thing that stops this being a complete Yes 'tribute' is the voice of Euan Lowson, nothing, thankfully like the bollock squashed squealings of a young Jon Anderson! Lowson had been renowned for his theatrics immediately attracting, possibly unfair, comparisons between himself and Peter Gabriel. He left the band after this album and was replaced by a Gabriel/Fishy frontman from prog hell. The band tightened their sound and produced the 'Wedge' album. The sentinal is a mixture of drama (Cut and run) and touching melodies (Ark of infinity) These melodies sometimes get a bit overbearing and a little too: ALL JOIN HANDS NOW, COME ON! This smacks of YES as does the processed Rickenbacker bass guitar sound, prominant throughout. Who's the producer?? Eddie Offord notheless, a production favourite of...yes you guessed it..'YES' Definelty worth a listern, though. Despite what many may have thought at the time, the eighties needed some prog in order to make sure that not everyone was sucked into the trivial world of yuppiedom and all the negative culture that accompanied that.