Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark

Hi,

This is scary for me ... it's as if we are waiting for a keyboard to jump out all over the place, or a singer go crazy on stage and perform with a codpiece in his face, or some sort of pyrotechnics off the guitar ... you know the stuff that we have become enamored with and think is WHAT PROGRESSIVE MUSIC is all about ... and all it says is that we're bored and we want to be entertained ... and THAT HAS NOTHING to do with the music itself.

At least, it is what I read into it. It is "serious", in its approach, and perhaps they could be a bit easier, but it's hard to not be serious in these kinds of things ... you either are with them, or the whole thing comes off cynic and pathetic, or worse ... another song about a girl on a motorcycle chewing a lollipop ... it just won't fit any more than a polka dot bikini.

One of the hard (and sometimes harsh!) things about meditation, is that you have to get into it ... you can't just go half way and expect results that make sense and help you all along. And all life, martyrdom aside, is really like that ... and in this case it was about a lot of life and death and survival, so the album being "serious" is much more on par with things, than otherwise, and to me, a perfect "spokesperson" for 2020, the year we want to forget!