A QUESTION OF BALANCE

A Question of Balance, what a nice title. Balance, just what this album is lacking. It opens strongly with the excellent Questions, and it's a shame they put the highlight at the beginning. Most of the other songs just aren't very interesting, some are OK but some are really bad. It's a weakness the previous albums had, but here the problem reaches a low, with The Minstrel and Melancholy Man being particularly bad. The Balance is a nice ending, but then I'm a sentimental fool who likes this sort of thing. I'm sure many others will hate it.