LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC

The problem is that after this album, they were never able to really reinvent a concept and sound again. Everything from that moment seems to me like the re making of "lark´s" . With "RED" as the better crafted from then. Their 80's output was a remake of this album with more accesible sounds, but that was it. No wonder why they issued Lark´s part 2, 3 ,4 5, 6, etc.....

Also. This album seems to be masterpiece. However, everyone seems to ignore the large amount of filler in this album. Take "Lark´s first part"; the core and true interesting part of it´s long 13 minutes, lasts for only 3 minutes. The rest of the song is repetitive and not precisely appealing.

"book of saturday" is nice to listen to but it´s not challenging at all. "Exiles" is the same case but this one is overlong for the amount of ideas presented

"Easy money" is somewhat interesting and still can´t manage to grab your attention. It lacks of passion and appealing texture.

"The talking drum" takes 3 minutes to begin and then it´s more of an atmosphere theme than a true composition. Interesting on the first listens but pointless after the 5th.

"Lark´s second" may be the better crafted theme here, still, is way too repetitive. Could be better as a 4 minute song.

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