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Boring album with few good tracks

Jeff Weselinski | New Jersey | 09/26/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This album I can say is probably the worst album Marillion has to offer. Boring songs like Interior Lulu, Home, and several others lacks the energy of other marillion songs. Some songs are empty feeling messes, While other songs like Built In Bastard Radar, When I Leave You, Tumble Down THe Years bring light to this album, the rest is pretty lifeless. The only people I can recommend this album to, are the true fans of the band. The rest stay away."

Prog-pop at its finest.

Cameron | 04/26/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was my third H-era album I have listened too. This is after Marbles and Season's End which are both top-notch albums. I was a little suprised with the sound of this album. A lot of quasi-blues, quasi-funk songs which hint slightly more toward their sound they have achieved on marbles rather than Season's End. I was also suprised at the slight blandness of the first couple of tracks. Albiet, I really liked the first couple of songs, but it was nothing more than the catchiness of the songs which really draws me toward them.



"A Legacy" is a pretty cool funk tune featuring some pretty cool keyboard parts by mosley and of course, some very interesting bass and guitar parts. The song seems to drag JUST a little bit longer than it should, but I have no problem with that.



Then comes "Deserve" which is simply just a catchy song, nothing more. After the catchiness wears thin, there really isn't anything much here. "Go!" is probably the best of the first seven songs. Very awesome song, love the bass chords in the beginning. Awesome guitar parts from Rothery. The rest of the first seven songs on the album are very pleasent tunes. Not really overly impressive, but the instrumentation is still top notch. Rothery shines in a lot of these songs, most notably in "Enlightened".



Now on to the last two tracks, which pretty much save this album from getting a anything lower than a 4/5. "Interior Lulu" starts out fairly slow with H singing very lightly over a repeating bass line. The song starts growing and growing until Mosley explodes into an Emerson like solo on his keyboard. The middle part of the song is just awesome. Some of the best bass lines I've ever heard side-by-side with Rothery's amazing guitar work. The song builds up more and more to an awesome climax featuring some ever cooler bass lines by Trewavas. This song is pretty much driven by the bass, and that is not a bad thing at all. Love Trewavas's bass work. This song is no exception; heck, it exemplifies it.



House is a very trip-hop like song. Very quasi-jazz like. Extremely beautiful. I would say that it rivals Neverland as far as marillion album closers are concerned.



A very pleasent album featuring two of the best H era songs as far as I'm concerned (Interior Lulu, house..). If you can take the poppiness of the first couple of songs, by all means: go grab this album. You won't be dissapoitned. I would even recommend this to fans just getting to know the band or the H-era.



*edit ... I meant to give this one a 4/5 star review."