CHOCOLATE KINGS

This was actually the first PFM album that I've ever heard and I remember that I thought "why is this guy singing so similar to the Genesis guy?"

"Chocolate Kings" was PFM's first album totally composed in English, it was not an English version of an earlier record as "Photos of ghosts" or "The world became the world", this was completely original material. The vocalist that I thought was trying to copy Peter Gabriel was actually Bernardo Lanzetti who came out from Acqua Fragile which is a band that I was never a fan of precisely because to me, it seemed like a band making a desperate attempt to sound like Genesis.

Peter Sinfield was not involved on this record, but the lyrics written by Marva Jan Marrow were pretty good, and further than the lyrics and the language they were written on, musically, the album is pretty good. Most of the songs this album includes are extremely energic; we can appreciate a beautiful vibe of symphonic and jazzy arrangements here and there as it was usual in PFM's earlier recordings but mainly, the album is full of rock patterns; also, the vocal roles were very nicely oriented to a Rock Pop kind of album.

Not their best record but still a pretty good one.

SONG RATING: From under, 4 Harlequin, 5 Chocolate kings, 4 Out of the roundabout, 4 Paper charms, 4

AVERAGE: 4.2

PERCENTAGE: 84

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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