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What a sickening album with a sickening cover. This is Marillion's second attempt at a more commercial prog rock setting the guidelines for neo - prog. The reason for the low rating is the constant grating drums with way to much reverb. It's like they are trying to make up for having a bad drummer. If they weren't so large and important in the mix I wouldn't have a problem but they have this gross overproduced garbage sound that makes me feel sick. Each song has emotional and dark lyrics sung by their knockoff Peter Gabriel singer, but unlike Gabriel, Fish just mopes about the state of the world and begs for us to fix it for him. Maybe if you're lucky he'll sing a concept piece about his mean girlfriend or something. On occasion an interesting organ solo will try and rip you away from the vile drums but its never enough. These guys are so full of themselves every guitar solo is a sweaty 80's twinkle rock solo that tries to lull you to sleep but if you indeed make it through the whole album you can wonder why they didn't call neo prog "Styx Rip-Off Bands"

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