VOYAGE OF THE ACOLYTE

This album starts so great with maybe the best guitarmelodie Steve Hackett ever delivered. But here the words of glory stop for me. A lot of reviewers point to this record as a proof of Hackett's quality songwriting, but I'm not so impressed by it. In fact the song writing factor may be the crucial factor for me why I never really liked this record. The differrent passages in the songs don't fluidly flow over in each other: it seems a bit forced. The most themes are not interesting enough either. Well, actually there is - besides the introduction guitarmelodies - not much memorable about this record for me. I wanted to write a more sophisticated review about this record, but I just don't want to listen to it anymore: two stars...