IN SHELTERED WINDS

I can't still understand how the singer of one of best prog acts ever, like IQ, after serving that masterpiece called 'The Wake' was able to leave the band, and assemble this strange project, after that, arranging this so light and poppy collection of songs, with a total lack of any musical ambition on them. At least, Peter Gabriel waited for two years, to prepare and refine his first solitary masterpiece...

Perhaps that punk background of the british scene in those times had a lot of influence on this, as some of the musicians on it came from there...The description of this band says that 'The music is a bit more light-weight than IQ but still better than the music that IQ made while Peter was gone', but I feel (as a long-time musician and arranger) that any random cut of that continuously reviled (but lovely) IQ age is easily hundreds of times better, by any minimum objective musical analysis, that this whole collection of competely discardable outtakes, in any serious prog band repertoire.

In fact, the tandem Orford-Holmes always was, apart from the singer they used, a competent and professional musical asociation, on the contrary of this. I feel this material is not able to pass any quality filter of any serious, even amateur band. I don't even know how they dared to finally edit a LP, with that material...

I always considered Peter a great lyricist and fine singer, especially after his return on 'Ever', and if I had with such career, I wouldn't want to be remembered by this completely erroneous collection of absurdities...