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SIDES

Anthony Phillips

 

Symphonic Prog

3.05 | 122 ratings

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1 stars It's a lot of years since when I bought this vinyl. I don't remember it very well as I didn't listen to it very much. What I remember is the big disappointment. After an excellent debut like The Geese and the Ghost and its good follow-ups this album came to remind me that even the best artist can sometimes have a failure.

Starting from the cover art, that's very poor compared to the amenity of The Geese and the Ghost and to the colorful paintings of Private Parts and Pieces, this album totally failed to catch my attention. I've never been able to listen to its entirety in one shot, and even looking for something to save from it, I find that only the instrumentals are worth the time spent, but they are just listenable.

It's good that after this attempt to put himself in line with the incoming poorness of the 80s Anthony Phillips is gone one step back and has restarted making quite good music immediately after with the first follow-up to Private Parts.

What else to say here? It makes the pair with Rutherford's "Acting Very Strange". As the former colleague Anthony Phillips has tried to explore a musical landscape he doesn't belong to, and the result is quite poor. Of course there are some good moments here and there (not very much honestly) because he's a talented artist but if you are going to explore the big discography of this skilled guitarist and composer you can save some money by skipping this one.

This is in my opinion his worst effort, but he never fell so low again. It's not because it's commercial. Commercial music can be good. This is just poor.

One of my rare 1-star ratings.

octopus-4 | 1/5 |

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