PAWN HEARTS

This is really a masterpiece of progressive music! It's just 3 songs, but it's really a complete album: in the A side, Lemmings and Man-Erg represent good and evil, strength and gentleness, rage and calm: Lemmings is about the Meaning of Life, while Man-Erg is about the two souls that lie in every man - the Angel and the Killer... Hammill is a real poet, he's just as "mad" as a poet is supposed to be. And he's a great singer too; I've never heard a voice more expressive. The second side, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, is about intellectual solitude, the feeling of being lonely even in the crowd.

This is not only the best VDGG album, but also a must of Prog, an album that defines what we know under that name... 5 stars.