Klaatu - 3:47 E.S.T. CD (album) cover  3:47 E.S.T.    Prog
Related  3.27 | 69 ratings  From Progarchives.com, the ultimate
progressive rock music website  2 stars Does this album really
have such good ratings on a prog site? That makes me wonder,
because I found this BOTH non-proggy AND mostly terribly bad and
irritating late 60's style pop/rock in the vein of Beatles, with
some 10CC or SPARKS-like twist. (I'm using the word bad
subjectively: these guys are technically very skilful
musicians.) The best song is obviously the scifi-themed opener
'Calling Occupants' which was some years later made famous by
The Carpenters (and it suits pretty well for them), and the only
truly progressive one is the closer 'Little Neutrino'. The
shortish songs in between didn't manage to make any other
impression on me than frustration. So, two stars from me.
Luckily the other album (Hope) that I know is much better and
also notably more progressive.  The rumours of this Canadian
band being actually Beatles still shapes the way