HAPPINESS IS THE ROAD

This was everything I was hoping it wouldn't be, I found it very boring it seemed to drag on for hours and had little to none of the creative inspiration I once turned to this band for hoping to find ! I understand some people may think that my one star rating isn't warranted but I assure you I couldn't find any redeeming quality about this recording and I`m sure in the next few weeks there will be others who feel the same way. The production was awful, the songs were so boring I never want to hear them ever again and the worst part even worse than the stuff I have mentioned is Hogarth ! He keeps getting worse and worse I didn't mind his vocals back in the days of Seasons End I thought Marillion had found themselves a good AOR type singer but of late Hogarths vocals have got hard to listen to he sounds unfocused and he waffles and commits the worst sin his pitch is out when he attempts to rise to any kind of vocal aggression ! This CD encapsulates all I have said perfectly. I hated Happiness is the road and this is the last time I'll bother with this band ! That is unless they sack Hogarth and return to playing prog because this isn't prog its definitely not prog !!!