A BLACK BOX

Every VDGG fan, listen to me now. If you love A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers and try to find some prog epic with its gloomyness, its awesomeness but can't find it at all, don't search further, it's here and under thy eyes. Flight; Forget about the first side, I've listened to it something like twice. But Flight, I've listened to it 20 time since I found it 5 months ago when I was looking for another A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, and it's beautiful. It has basically the same vibe as APOLKs but with a more new-wave sound and a out of tuned grand piano (and with more guitar). But yes, it has the saxophone ; yes, it has the powerful horrific The Clot Thickens section (it's called Nothing Is Nothing) ; yes, it has the powerful and voice-fully Land-End Sineline section (it's called A Black Box and it follows Nothing Is Nothing) ; yes it has the grandiloquent Hammill's voice (which is quite terrifying sometimes). All you have to understand is that the lyrics here are quite harder to catch than in APOLKs. Talking about the lyrics, you, basically, can replace the lighthouse keeper with a plane pilot (BUT, with the different layers of narrations, Hammill is something of a poet you know). SO, even if it's quite unorthodox, and because I'm a punk, I'll grant this album 5 stars, only for the Flight epic, because it has to be more well-known among the prog landscape for it's one of the last prog epic of the classical era (if its not THE last). SO, yeah, give it some 4 or 5 listen to get into, it's kinda long, and kinda too new-wave for a classical prog fanatic. Be infulgent.

Fricking 5 stars.