THE LIKES OF US

I know Big Big Train are one the the current big prog groups. I have a number of their albums including The Underfall Yard, the title track of which I really like. I struggle to match them up however to the titans of prog like Genesis et al.

This album starts off well, but to be honest although I have given it numerous hearings I am struggling to rate it higher than 2 to 3 stars. To me there is nothing that stands out. The first track starts off well and other tracks have their moments, but to me the overall quality is not there.

I have seen Big Big Train live when they performed this album. The performance stood up better than the CD recording I have and the stage act is very accomplished The new vocalist is polished but I found the vocals and what he was singing about was not very memorable. Having given this a good airing to try to like it, the CD is unfortunately now unlikely to get much further air play.