THREE FRIENDS

One of the best bands in the whole prog rock pantheon with one of their best efforts. It's concept album with quite down to earth story (as for prog standards) of three school friends going their seperate ways as the life continues. Nostalgic theme with very busy music to ilustrate it. It's GG level of complexity so a lot is going on within the tracks but there is also enough diversity between the tracks to match the different personalities. It has beautiful abstract, minimalistic moments with rocking and heavy riffs for a good measure. Of course present are also one of it's kind rich vocal arrangements. Rock, jazz, classical - on paper it seems like nothing extraordinary, almost every prog band had similar ingridients, but there was only one Gentle Giant. Five stars hands down.