CHANGING HORSES

This album was not very good in my opinion, though there ís one really good, long song in it. The second song "White Bird" written by Mike Heron runs over fourteen minutes, and it is a long religious epic rolling calmly and harmonious, building from organ, flute, singing, organs and bass, later joined by drums. I liked the focused calmness of the song, there are great elements of beauty in it, and the overall picture is not broken by any distracting elements. Along with Maya, this is one of the best songs of the group, but now accompanied with poorer songs.

Other songs of the album are "Big Ted", American country styled eulogy to a farmer man in joyful humorous style, playful but maybe little too silly "Dust Be Diamonds", "Sleepers, Awake!" which is a Christian hymn / gospel choir song, "Mr. and Mrs." which is a melodically strong, but sounding somehow incoherent, and another long epic "Creation". This long starts quite painfully, having some narration over chanting, an element which dominates the song unbelievably strongly. The other elements used in it didn't feel very pleasant either, so this was actually one of the most irritating songs by this group I have heard yet. Though I adored the song "White Bird", otherwise this record did not feel very interesting to me, and I would not recommend it to others except fans of the group.