I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE

I Can See Your House From Here, Quite the camel album indeed. The elements of Jazz Fusion in the first number 'Wait'. The alternating time signatures in the keyboard solo battle, Kit Watkins playing in 10/4 and Jan Schelhaas in 11/4. From a playing standpoint, 'Wait' is one of the most technical songs in the bands discography, and a hard hitting introduction to this wonderful album. 'Your Love Is Stranger Then Mine' can be seen as a soft rock attempt, the written and playing is all good but the key thing to focus on is Collin Bass' vocals. His vocals are absolutely amazing on this very underrated gem by a brilliant prog band. 'Eye Of The Storm' is an instrumental with great keyboard lines, good flutes and great guitar playing, what is there to hate about this? 'Who We Are' is a mix of complex prog, soft rock, and a bunch of orchestration, Andy Latimer's voice is actually very good on this track too. The mix of soft rock, prog, and orchestra is staggering on this song, it makes me wonder why anyone would right this borderline Jazz Fusion album anything even close to pop. 'Survival' is a much more orchestral piece (again... how is this pop?), the chords are beautifully written by Mr. Andy Latimer, and this track fits well on this studio work. 'Hymn To Her', the more calm and melodic piece before the long song on the album 'Ice', is also very well written, the vocals are very good here too. 'Neon Magic' is much more fast and I guess people can say this is an accessible track (when there is absolutely nothing on this album that was even borderline accessible, even in those days.), this song has the more complex approach with this lyrics and playing style, guitar licks all over the place, keys and atmosphere. 'Remote Romance', the other song people target for being too commercial friendly when it really isn't. 'Remote Romance' actually fits more as a space rock song done by Camel, its mainly keyboards and its full of vocoders, quirky keyboard licks, its basically just a space rock song. 'Ice' is the final piece on this album, its the longest song by 3 minutes, its slow, melodic, and the guitar parts and overlapping keyboards just make this song the real gem on this studio work by Camel.

Conclusion: This is not a pop album, this is more Jazz Fusion than Pop. The odd times, the keyboard solos, the orchestration... do I actually need to go on? This is one of Camel's great masterpieces, and its nowhere near pop.