BLACKWATER PARK

For me, this album is really excellent, but not of the likeness of their greatest ones, that are in my oppinion: their greatest- the sophisticated Ghost Reveries, the somewhat lessgood and progressive but as genious in creativity and great in atmosphere- Deliverance, Still Life and the mostcreative, done with love-first two albums.

I simply cannot get greatly excited of Blackwater Park and pulled thoroughly into this atmosphere it holds. It's a shame I feel, but well... I feel that maybe it is a bit overproduced -and mastered. But the main cause I think for the loss of quality in my eyes would be the change of mood and feeling. It is, like others have said, different from their other work.

All songs on Blackwater Park deserve in my eyes a four-star rating, not more, except for the gloomy, heavy and exciteing ''Funeral Portrait'' and the genious ''Patterns In The Ivy'', that are five-star songs without a doubt.

So...in conclusion it's a 4,0-4,5 album in my honest oppinion. Something that definately belongs to the collection of albums of a true prog-lover, who enjoys something heavier.