Think a cross between labelmates Abramis Brama, Mammoth Volume, November and Yes at their most progressive... and I�m talking '70s stuff now, not the lame shit Yes put out today. Like all the songs on this album, it is far too complex to try to get across how it sounds in a review... Sometimes jazzy, sometimes bluesy... Always trippy, always progressive... And more often than not... Heavy, in that special '70s kinda way. Bands like Captain Beyond, Armageddon and Iron Butterfly comes to mind.

Through the band's music I constantly hear sort of a Led Zeppelin shining through without becoming a pure rip off of Plant and Co. It will probably be due to the 'hidden' amount of hard blues. In the opening song "Vansinnet" I note the fabulous guitar solo of Filip Norman, whilst the well-balanced violin of guest musician Ola de Freitas delivers a nice complimentary asset to the whole. Often the wah-wah pedal is used, the flanger is dusted off, whilst various voices form a nice counterpoint. An element, which is constantly apparent in QOPH's music, is the psychedelic approach to hard blues so that we sort of listen to the Swedish answer to Blue Cheer.

QOPH is Swedish prog, with a fairly heavy rhythm-base, but I must say that it is virtually indescribable! I think that means the originality factor here is extremely high. The thing with these guys is that they remind me of the first time I heard stuff like King Crimson and Zappa back in the '70s. At the beginning of my experience with them, it was such unusual stuff that I didn't know whether I liked it or not. Now, like with those artists, the more I listen, the more I like.

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