LOVE WILL NEVER COME

What is MR GIL but BELIEVE without Satomi's keyboards, and especially violin, you may ask? This seems a fair explanation, except that I think the Mr Gil project amounts to what its namesake, Mirek Gil, wants to do when he isn't a Believer, Heck, he can't even settle on the language from one of these albums to the next, let alone the style, from the often sinister "Skellig" to the breathy crooning of "I want to get you back home" to this new offering comprising the same lineup as BELIEVE's miraculous "Seven Widows" except, well, except Satomi, which is always a shame.

This often prolific artist, of COLLAGE and SATELLITE fame, has nothing to prove anymore, his skills as a songwriter, arranger and Fripp-school guitarist having been documented over a span of 30+ years and nearly 20 albums, and while, apart from the sublime ballad "Without You", he isn't threatening to kick start a new genre, enough unpolished shards of his solo and band formulae rotate about here to add the first few tracks to his ever growing canon. From the title alone one can predict overwhelming tristesse and nonplussed resignation, but if you are a follower you would know this anyway. The whole COLLAGE family hold graduate degrees in wallowing. If it works, work it.

Like a mind meld of a few of the mid period MR Gil and BELIEVE albums, "Love will never Come" won't disappoint many fans, won't pick up a lot of new ones, and probably serves Mirek well until he is ready to work with Satomi again (third mention), which really can't come soon enough.