EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR

I bought this album because of the lovely cover, interesting name and a good listening experience with MB albums from the 70's and was hoping for a solid prog-related album. I can say it was a good investment. There is enough creativity, some invention, typical MB emotions and warmness in the music. Guitar rocks unusually hard, mellotron and organ are calming but progressive enough. Vocals by MB are ones and only with nostalgic ghost and fine harmonies. The simplest element in the music are drums alternating between pop and rock patterns. Most tracks are melodic and accessible but there are standout tracks also for a progger's mind: "Procession" is an impressive ouverture building on various type of keyboards, exotic beats, sitar, harpsichord with a trip to classical music and reaching the church-like Hammond organ accompanied by mellotron.

"The story in your eyes" is a classic melodic MB upbeat track with lovely guitar and bass playing but let's not forget a rock'n'roll piano towards the end.

"Our guessing game" has some more interesting drums but I would classify it as a ballad with great vocal harmonies. "Emily's song" is also a ballad thanks to lush cello and xylophone textures.

"One more time to live" is one of the best compositions on the album, complex in the sense of MB because of many things going on and showing band's versatility this time on acoustic guitar and flute, as well as organ.

"My song" is a bit pretentious ballad with a bit buried vocals and very dinstinctive Mellotron all over. The instrumental part is even more overblown, quite dramatic and more sad than happy. The track comes down to earth towards the end of the song.

Highly recommended for ambitious rock fans.