HOLIDAYS IN EDEN

So after being extremely impressed with Marillion's first album with new singer Steve Hogarth, Seasons End, I was looking foreward to future releases, considering that at least some of the more negatively-recieved albums may have been in disappointment over the loss of Fish. I welcomed that loss, as he never diversified the band's content. With him out of the way, the greoup could expand their horizons. Or at least, that's what I was hoping for. This is an almost entirely different album from Seasons End. Not only is the prog rock almost entirely betrayed for radio rock, but they don't even bother to justify these OK songs with any real melodies in the instrumentation. They're too few to even put into a short-term memory of the album. There's a good deal of the arena stuff fore you, like "big music" and AOR, but none of it's fully developed, so it never manages to stand with bands like Magnum or U2. You'd think once the 80's passed, the bigname prog bands would STOP selling out, but apparently, even neo-prog bands like Marillion can fall victim to this...

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