IN THE PASSING LIGHT OF DAY

I see this album as sitting 3rd after the classic "Remedy Lane" and "Perfect Element" albums in the list of POS top albums.

The opening song "On a Tuesday" and the closer "In the Passing Light of Day" are the highlights here but, thankfully, they are prog epics in their own right.

"On a Tuesday" starts at a frantic pace (perhaps Daniel's anger at his plight) then slowly calms into a superb final 3 minutes of prog heaven.

The album then becomes calmer generally with a few blips before the 15 minute closer "In the Passing Light....". This song starts very quietly as a tribute to his wife's support during his ordeal, goes through a midway increase in pace then comes back to the original beautiful melody for a great climax to the album.

After a few albums that didn't match up to their first 5 this is a return to the anger that drives this band. If not for a couple of items in the middle of this album it would get 5 stars but a good 4 behind the 5s I'd give to the aforementioned faves is well deserved.

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