Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco

Classic Italian progressive band Banco del mutuo soccorso released an esteemed trilogy of sorts in the early seventies, the only overarching theme being that all followed a fairly similar style of classically-influenced progressive rock, and that they were the band's first three full-length releases. The self-titled debut is possibly the weakest of the three, and as I can't really think of an appropriate analogy off the top of my head, you can imagine for yourself the first part of a film trilogy that got better and more sophisticated with the second film, before returning to the same level of confused quite-good mediocrity with the finale ('Star Wars' doesn't count, ...  Read the complete review