★★★★★
Ambrosia's 1982 Road Island was not so much a return to form as an exit from what I like to call their "Michael McDonald/Pablo Cruise" years. The sound on this album is not really prog, but much less R&B; and a lot more R&R;! It is yet another direction for the band. It is unfortunate that this would be their swan song. Things begin very interestingly with "For Openers (Welcome Home) as big monster 80s drums come in and a David Gilmour-esque lead guitar sings a bluesy riff...
- www.prognaut.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Well, it is pretty much a full "One Eighty" from what they performed on their first two albums. On this recording the four core members added another keyboardist (original keys-player Chris North had limited involvement with the last recording, but makes a more pronounced appearance here) and a percussionist/vocalist, making them now a six piece playing less intricate music nonetheless...
- www.prognaut.com
2010-09-08
★★★★★
Again produced by Alan Parsons and Freddie Piro, the second album by Ambrosia outdoes the first in production and performance! Although there are more straight-ahead rockers on this album, there is also more orchestral/symphonic playing too.
Starting softly with "And..." (sung by drummer Burleigh Drummond) and then breaking into the rockin' title song, the beautiful voices and great instrumentation are even more evident than before...
- www.geocities.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
I believe I am not the only one who enjoys a bit of melodic value in my prog, and these guys definitely deliver! I love the long instrumental passages, but excellent vocals with great melody and harmony are just as important. All four members in Ambrosia sing, but the two lead vocalists: Joe Puerta and David Pack have incredibly warm voices.
They open the album with a very Yes-like guitar passage on "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" based on a poem by Kurt Vonnegut Jr...
- www.geocities.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Somewhere I've never Travelled is an amazingly ambitious work by four musicians who sound as if they've spent the last 20 years living inside a radio...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Okay, okay, I know... "How Much I Feel" and all that, I hear you screaming! No, that is not a progressive rock song by any stretch of the imagination. Still, after producing two incredible albums in the prog genre, Ambrosia released this work. I remember awaiting this with baited breath in 1978 and being so disappointed, although there is some good stuff here in retrospect...
- www.geocities.com
2009-06-01
★★★★★
On their final album, Ambrosia forsakes the airbrushed AOR sounds that defined Life Beyond L.A. and One Eighty in favor of a strong, rock-oriented sound. They are aided in this aim by a gutsy production from James Guthrie (a producer better known for his work with groups like Judas Priest and Pink Floyd) that takes the group to a new level of sonic firepower...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Ambrosia's third album (and first for Warner Bros.) is more commercial and less conceptual than their first two releases, Somewhere I've Never Travelled and the self-titled Ambrosia. The album opens effectively with the title track, which is about life, or the lack thereof, in Los Angeles. The better songs on this album, including the title track and the top ten single "How Much I Feel," were written and sung by lead vocalist/multi-instrumentalist David Pack.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
It contains their biggest pop hits, "Biggest Part of Me" and "You're the Only Woman."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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