THE CIVIL SURFACE

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Canterbury Scene

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Beautiful Scarlet

Best Egg album.

An even affair. Germ patrol and Wind Quartet are very pleasant exercises that provide welcome respite's in-between the albums "meat". While prelude, eneagram, nearch and wring out the ground are wonderful Egg compositions. Honestly though what gives this album an edge over it's compatriots is it's absence of flaws.

Unlike the debut which has a mixed bag of vocal songs on the first side, Civil Surface posseses only excellent vocals a la I Will Be Absorbed/A Visit To Newport Castle on the magnificent Wring Out The Ground (Slowly Now). Unlike Polite Force there is no maddening Boilk (not even a bad song just meh, which is a flaw I can't overlook for a five stars).

Ultimately I love egg and the best Egg album is not best by a lot.

it's like getting an 100% on a test versus a 95%.

Beautiful Scarlet | 5/5 | 2021-2-16

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