MARBLES

"Marbles" is simply the best Marillion album. It's their most open-minded, too. So, where's the problem? The problem is that when you are open-minded, as musician, you have to stand the intolerance of who is not open-minded. Those who critic Marbles should be very sure not to make confusion between their own taste and what an album like this can really offer. If anybody is so still linked to the 70's progressive rock to refuse every other kind of music, this anybody should admit that HE doesnt' like this album. By the way, this album can not be apprecieted by those who cannot think instead of dancing. I'm just a little bit disappointed with the Band, however, for there are still some defects that I hope will disappear in the next work. I cannot really stand the way Marillion rimind not simply other bands like Pink Floyd or Radiohead -and this is obviously normal- but the fact that Marillion riminds, sometimes, some very recognizable tracks by bands like these. That's not only a question of style, but of copying. For example, the acoustic side of "the invisbile man" comes clearly from "animals" of Pink Floyd, and so "Marbles II" is too similar to "fake plastic tree" of Radiohead, of which they recorded an unplugged cover. The bass playing at the end of "Ocean cloud" is clearly taken from "heart of the sunrise" by Yes. All this disappoint me because when i try to involve someone in this masterpiece, many times people tells me that this sounds like Pink Floyd or Radiohead. But that's the really only one defect of Marbles. I'm sure that the fate of this album is the same of "Brave". When "Brave" came out, too many people have low rated it, the same kids that, 10 years later, are crying because Marbles is not as beuty as Brave. Marillion, when you'll be gone, it will be Neverland.