VIGIL IN A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS

Fish

Neo-Prog

3.89 | 416 ratings

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One of the first albums I owned in my life.

I was 12 or 13 at the time. I was totally not into the music, that my children my age were into: house, rap, grunge. Instead I jumped the progbandwagon. Starting out with Simple Minds, Saga, Marillion, Queen, Phil Collins; you know, the simple stuff.

There was no internet and I never listened to the radio. So all I knew was from the OOR's music encyclopedia. There was a chapter called symphonic rock, and that's where I drew my inspiration.

Vigil I owned on musiccasette and I played it a lot, A LOT. While doing my paperroute or any othet job I had at the time. Fish and this album really helped me to enjoy life and not being lonely all the time.

In that light; this album means more to me, than to others. I don't know if this album is a progrock-masterpiece. But it's a masterpiece for me. The musicianship is sublime, the songwriting is great and there are lots of dynamics, epic songs, great soloiing, lush arrangments, powerful lyrics.

Maybe this not progrock like Yes or King Crimson, but more proggy pop like Peter Gabriel, Tears for Fears and Talk Talk. I cannot honestly rate this one lower than 5*

Kingsnake | 4/5 | 2013-2-6

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