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I don't like it much at all. While there's a lot going on- and some of it is good- it's a mess in terms of composition. Tough for me to get through, to be honest.

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Prog Recommendations/Featured albums (5 Viewing)
Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums

Originally posted by Tony R

Prog Recommendations/Featured albums (5 Viewing)
Make or seek recommendations and discuss specific prog albums

You getting tired of people starting threads in the obviously wrong section? LOL

Edited by Snow Dog - January 10 2011 at 13:00

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

Originally posted by Snow Dog

To be honest it took me a lot, a lot of listenings to "get it". It's a good album though and rewards further listening. Wink

Same here, is a really complex album and kinda difficult to enjoy at a first listen, you know you're in front of something pretty good but it takes a while to get into it... but it's definitively an "easier" listen than their following album.

I think I couldn't even finish listening Epilog the first four or five times I played it...

But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don't bear the glow
They did so long ago

I would happily pay 200 GBP for a vinyl copy if i could find one..

....yes, it is that good

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Originally posted by BlindGuard

I got my copy today, and It's great.

Complex and yet heavenly beautiful...

That's a nice way of putting it. Why don't you post a review?

In Lazland, life is transient. Prog is permanent.

Originally posted by richardh

It's the only truly original post 1980 symphonic prog album that I've stumbled across.

Very beautifully written/played with a unique atmosphere.

Although completely different in texture, I would thoroughly recommend David Minasian's 2010 release, Random Acts Of Beauty.

In Lazland, life is transient. Prog is permanent.

I prefer Wobbler personally.

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

it brought me "immediate joy"

I prefer Epilog, though, if only by a little. Both are 5* albums

Edited by Triceratopsoil - January 10 2011 at 18:10

[QUOTE=Vompatti]I wouldn't put a Warr guitar in my vagina.[/QUOTE]

Bearing in mind the amount of praise that I've read about this band, and this album, I think it must be the most overrated prog band / album. I got it somewhere in -97, and I never really liked it. But there are parts of it which I've had on my mind off and on through the years, and there's something about the expression of a flute which is very honest.

One obvious source of inspiration is Genesis (Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot particularly). I don't like the sound of the drums , and neither the drum playing. The tom-toms don't have any ring to them, they are too dampened, which is annoying. The playing is a bit stiff and over-dramatic.

There's a scandinavian folksong influence in the music. "Vandringar i vilsenhet" begins with a very folksong-ish melody.

You can feel that there's a lot of ambition behind the album though. But it feels a little over-ambitious. The harmonies and melodies aren't interesting enough to be used as the foundation to compositions of such dramatic proportions.

But that's just my opinion.

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