Listening to Honeypot’s CD Aquasox is like watching a decent band play their first show. They’re just warming up during the first half of the set, and then things really start heating up later into the night.

Honeypot plays mellow Phish-like jam-funk throughout their CD until “Soul Purpose,” a seven-minute schizophrenic epic that goes from slow jam to hard rocker to an amalgam of swing and rock. In fact, seven minutes is the average length of most of the tracks on Aquasox, with the shortest two clocking in at three minutes.

I guess that’s average for their style, but some of the songs, like the instrumental title track, could stand to be a few minutes shorter. Other highlights from this album include the progressive rocker “Lucille” (Steve Howe guitar rondos and all) and the fist-pumping intensity of “Jemez,” which comprises the second half of this album.

Honeypot is one of those bands that are best when they’re at their most diverse.