Marillion

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(10/10)
Marillion has spent the last decade trying to decide whether they are a pop/rock band or a prog rock band. This album seems an effort by the band to satisfy both worlds. The first seven songs have a distinctly pop/rock sound and are quite good while the last two songs take up half of the album careening through styles and metaphors and... well, they are quite good too. The problem is that in trying to please everyone, you inevitably fail to please someone. As Dale from North Dakota put it, "Frankly, I was rather disappointed with it. With the exception of the last two tracks... it didn't strike me as anything new. I thought that it was too derivative, something I really haven't seen from Marillion." I, on the other hand, found the album refreshingly varied and interesting. For the uninitiated, it's very representative of the different sides of an interesting band. You can choose which side you like best for yourself.

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