Album of the Day

Unfolded Like Staircase, by Discipline (1997): For a band that shares a name with King Crimson's 1981 masterpiece, Discipline sounds a lot like Genesis, Van der Graff Generator, and various other 70s symphonic stalwarts. Actually, Unfolded . . . was the most hyped prog album of the year when it came out and to say I was underwhelmed at the time was an overstatement. I simply couldn't see what all the fuss was about. After living with the album for all these years, it's grown on my tremendously, although I still wouldn't put it in the "classic" category (especially in a year that produced Timothy Pure's Blood of the Berry, Mike Keneally's Sluggo!, and the self-titled finneus gauge album). It's very good (and dark) epic symphonic prog, so definitely seek it out if you like that kind of thing.