GENTLE GIANT

The Giant's debut release. I won't go into a song-by-song breakdown, since that's already been done by several reviewers. I will simply say that even though some consider this to be a progressive effort, I consider it a pretty straightforward rock record; lots of blues and commercial sounding(for the era) rock. Sure, it has its progressive moments, but not enough of them to make this anything but an album for collectors and fans ONLY.

This record sounds like most everything hippie from that era and doesn't provide a true gauge of what GG would eventually become: one of the top prog bands of all-time.

TWO STARS.