A CURIOUS FEELING

Tony Banks

Crossover Prog

3.43 | 242 ratings

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GruvanDahlman
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I have struggled with this album, over and over and over again, trying to come to grips with it. In the end I have failed miserably. Miserably!

Oddly, there is actually nothing wrong with it. It is all very well played and conducted. Yes, there are plenty of pop elements but also a lot of progressive ones. All in all I'd say there's a good mix of it all. But just as fusion have a tendency, sometimes, to go on a journey with no end, just trodding away on this everlasting expedition, so does Mr. Banks on this album. Not much goes on and the music fades into the background, like new age noodling. I find little to cherish and little to remember when the album at last finds the end and silently stops rotating within my CD- player. And I hate that.

The cover of the album is lovely. Beautiful. The music inside is soothing, suitable for late night discussions over a drink or two. It it music that does not enfuriate, nor does it make me as a listener jump for joy. It actually brings forth an empty plate of emotions. The tray, how silver it might be, stares back at me, reflecting only my bewildered face.

The only track I do find great, in some sense, is "For a while". Quite poppy but great lyrics and an all in all top notch prog-pop song of the late 70's. That is all and not quite enough.

In conclusion I have to say that my efforts to penetrate this temple of peaceful prog has left me unsuccesful and just as bewildered as ever. There is nothing to greet my but my own feelings of being locked up in a spa, where music acts as a soothing and relaxing companion to the cucumbers on my eyes and the parsnips sticking out of my ears.

Sorry, my good fellow Banks. This is not the most exciting piece of music I have come across and I will probably not be revisiting this again. At least not for a while.

GruvanDahlman | 2/5 | 2014-2-4

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