THICK AS A BRICK

All (almost) prog music is summarized in this album. This is not a folk album, but it has folk taste, and jazz, and blues, and sometihing that makes categories unusable: prog. Please discover this album (if necessary) which begins with a voice and a guitar and soon let's you discover surprizing and melodic evolution, with some more rock parts, and... others... Don't wait for a change of rythym, melody, atmosphere. They will come, naturally, by the harmony: a natural switch. For those who are expecting more, it is difficult to get rid of this album: every time you listen to it, you discover something (after a few years, it might be something you had forgotten, but you can't easily be tired: after 6 months, you'll be back to it as a new one, just a bit familiar...). Who can you define a masterpiece. As Ian Anderson explained himself: it was a change. Agualung had been considered as a "concept" album, and They wanted to show a "reac "conceptc album".c They wrote it little by little, with no more than a editorial line. With talent, improvisation and consistency; almost not influenced by its time (70's, as most of the "better" ones). It is still perfect tioday...