With
Paradise Island,
Lake gave listeners no real surprises. Indeed, their style of music could almost be looked on as a brand name. You pretty much knew from the get-go that any
Lake album would be composed of well-written, arranged, and performed pop/rock pieces that showed slight (and sometimes not so slight) signs of progressive rock tendencies. The funny thing is, though, that the albums never really sound the same -- they only sound like
Lake albums. It is a shame these discs are so hard to come by. They are worth the effort, though, especially if music by bands like
Supertramp is your thing.