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Oh Marillion.. What's happened? :(

Review Score:

(6/10)
I'm a long-time fan of Marillion. But unfortunately, I noticed that with every album after absolutely brilliant Brave, the music is getting worse. I just love each and every song on Brave, love many songs on Afraid of Sunlight (and like the rest of them), I like most songs on This Strange Engine.. Hm.. Radiation? Many people say that this album is Marillion total failure.. Hm.. probably. Since this it started to be clear that Marillion are starting to lose their style. Music doesn't contain that "hidden" (you know what I mean) sparkling energy previos Marillion albums always had. Well. Now, when it comes to the newest Marillion release, I see that this bad (oh.. why does it happen? ) tradition continues. Marillion music is even more flat and poppy than in Radiation. H's vocal is still great, but it is accumpanied by a music which is just not Marillion's music most of the time! Still, many track are OK, few tracks are evenquite good. But "good" and "OK" words are not the words I used to use when talking about Marillion! Hope the band still got energy to make an album this we can compare to Brave! But to find it out, we'll have to ways another looooong year I think, till the new album is out. Wanna know why 3 stars? Honestly, it should be 2 stars, but I just don't want to give up! I still hope Marillion will reborn!

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