FLY HIGH FALL FAR

1.Fly High Fall Far for the Pendragon sound with Rik Carter on keyboards and Nick's already recognizable guitar; soft title with no interest other than saying oh yes I remember it, in short I don't see anything transcendent in it and keep this impression a few decades later 2 Victims Of Life with the typical intro all at once, orchestral, symphonic, rhythmic, tasty, prog like we didn't think we'd have anymore; well there had been the Twelfth Night of course but it was necessary to scratch a little, and the Marillion who with their hardcore fervor and this support from the fanzines... had put a layer back into the effervescent prog anthill; yes prog was reborn from its ashes; short, melodic, tasty, a long title with the perfect combination of Nick's voice, keyboard and guitar, nothing to waste!

3 Dark Summer's Day with a syrupy atmosphere, bass, keyboards which imprint the sound while the guitar arrives, flowing drops of water overflowing from a waterfall. Final guitar solo on bluesy rather than progressive notes, the origin ultimately 4 Excalibur with a Marillionian, muscular start, which imposes a fat sound... that of the 80s of neo prog; finished the 70s with the extended intros, here it's more nervous to help set the mood more quickly; yes the trauma of the punk wave had passed by; brief 2 minutes of grandiloquent intro and the military drums emerge, the synth gives a bucolic air while Nick's spleen guitar vibrates deeply, beauty on a melancholic base, the one that makes aching hearts capsize; a magnificent instrumental which already shows that the sound is well established with the solo which rises, orgasmic; yes there is often a link with enjoyment in listening to very beautiful music, and there we get right into it.