GENTLE GIANT

This album has all the GG ingredients but their style was not fully crystallized at that point. Their counterpoint technique is not so complex and less used as in later albums. The symphonic texture is also less emphasized. However there are still hints of their future style: strange melodies, dissonances, vocal harmonies, use of acoustic instruments, heavier parts juxtaposed to pastoral folk ballad passages... Overall this album is one of the most progressive works of it's time but a lot of tracks are in the style of straighter hard prog and blues-rock and less original than their later works. Nevertheless a great debut album!