THREE FRIENDS

Three Friends is roughly the same material as on Gentle Giant's debut album, being mostly progressive blues rock with medieval touches, but with the added complexity from Acquiring the Taste. This is an album that I found to be fairly unimportant in Gentle Giant's discography, though it is still a nice listen every now and then. The overall songwriting on this album seems like a slight regression, behind both albums before this. Rather slow and uninspired sounding blues rock has never been my kind of thing, but it's hard for me to not enjoy something by Gentle Giant. This album still has the undeniable Gentle Giant sound and vocals, but is easily skipped.