A HANDFUL OF MARBLES

This is a free CD that can be ordered from marillion.com. The disc contains three tracks from Marbles and my favourite has to "Fantastic Place", a great song with a dreamy feeling and nice melody. "Drilling Holes" is more psychedelic with inputs from Beatles and XTC(as mentioned in the song!). "You´re gone" was the single track from the album. It starts of with some programmed drums and it has, as most Marillion tracks, some nice guitarplay. It´s not too catchy but oviously more pop than prog.

There are also three tracks from "Marbles on the road -Live DVD" and there you can find the best track from "Marbles" - "Neverland", a really progsounding song.

Beeing a free promo-CD giving new and old listeners the chance to catch up with the band I give it three stars both for the purpose but also for the music.