TORMATO

After their very inspired, varied and lush sounding masterpiece "Going for the one", for me this album was a kind of "cold shower", what a disappointment, in fact the same bad experience with "Tales.." after "Close to the edge"! I have to admit that "Tormato" has appeared more times on my record player than "Tales.." because I'm really delighted about "Don't kill the whale" (emotional vocals and splendid Polymoog runs) and "Madrigal" (wonderful classical atmosphere) but the other songs don't appeal to me. In order to explain that awful front cover, I think that the musicians felt subconscious guilty about the musical result of this album...A KIND OF FREUDIAN SLIP!