MIRAGE

First album was very good. This one is perfect. It's very interesting to listen "Mirage" just after "Camel" because it sounds as a logical suite but there is one big difference : one year passed between them, so :

1/ musicians had time to work really hard together ( interplay between them is fantastic ) 2/ songs are wonderful ( for sure they definitively find their own style ) 3/ the combination of different moods make this album "complete" ( they really created an album, not just different songs put together) 4/ music flows very easily ( it supposed a lot of work and talent to obtain this impression of facility) 5/ the band sounds like nobody else ( don't say me they are Pink Floyd clones, Camel has is own identity ).

Five reasons to consider "Mirage" as a masterpiece of progressive music. No doubt. Your collection can't be complete without this one.