Marillion

Marillion.Com

This album is brilliant, moving, and catchy!

Review Score:

(10/10)
Marillion are one of those bands that labors tirelessly in the interest of their music, without so much regard for popular success. The shame of it is, in a world where musicians' success was made by their devotion to craft, and their ability to make truly exciting music, Marillion would be very rich and famous people. marillion.com is full of wonderful songs, performed by the tightest band out there, with lyrics that hit you on multiple levels, music that is a thrill to listen to both the first time, and subsequent listens as it grows into your psyche.

This album is a sister to 1998's "Radiation" (two tracks in fact were held back from that album for new treatments here,) and yet is probably more consistently good, and integrated. Pop tracks like "Deserve", "Rich", and "Tumble Down the Years", while full of hooks, don't leave you feeling like you've been played; instead, the hooks make you pay attention to what's really going on in the song--like it should be. Then you'll listen to tracks like "Go", "Enlightened" and the 15-minute "Interior Lulu" and understand this is no ordinary, fad of the week, rock band.

You need to buy this album if you're a fan of good rock music of any kind, from 60s psychedelia, 70s progressive rock, 80's synth pop, to 90's Britpop. It's all here, and yet, never derivative of any of those genres, a new synthesis that is still somehow quintessentially Marillion.

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