BIG RED DRAGON (WILLIAM BLAKE'S VISIONS)

This is a really interesting record, and it's fair to say I didn't expect it to be one. I'm not a fan of 'symphonic' at all ? like, AT ALL ? because of how it tends to swamp any music it touches in on-the-nail-obvious classical motifs and syrupy strings, so I approached this with a fair degree of cynicism.

To my surprise, it's far, far more a hybrid of experimental x chamber-music x prog rock x avant-garde opera than all the Nightwishy stuff out there ? and all the better for it. At its best, there are bits of what you might get if Diamanda Galas collaborated with Marillion and 'Worlds Apart'-era ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead on a soundtrack to 18th century London's dark side. Yeah, that interesting!

I'm a massive fan of William Blake's poetry, art and other writings too, so I'm always a bit doubtful when someone announces a conceptual rock work based on him - but this is mostly dark, incantatory and GREAT.

There are still some occasional stray elements of twinkly-eurosymphonic in there... but honesty, if you were expecting twee, you came to the wrong place.

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