Marillion

Radiation

Their weakest effort

Review Score:

(6/10)
I'm as big a Marillion fan as they come, but I have to level with you...this is the album I like the least.

First off, let me be clear in saying that by no means this is a bad album, it's just that it doesn't measure up to the rest of Marillion's catalog (of either era). It's a hard record to digest, can be very dark but not alluring enough, never really grabs you completely.

As for the tracks:
- Costa del slough: this is nothing more than an extended intro to the next track
- Under the sun: a great tune, straight rock with cool keyboards and nice vocals by h
- The answering machine: a band standard, probably the best known track from this record. Great guitars...
- Three minute boy: starts off slowly and keeps on gaining strength. Cool guitar solo
- Now she'll never know: very slow, depressing tune. Doesn't really fit here as it's too strong a change of gears from what the album is up to here. Still, great vocals
- These chains: the single! Great chorus. Starts very darkly and weirdly, but grows on you after a couple of hearings
- Born to run: another slow track. Probably my least favorite of the whole album. It's only strength is the guitar line, and only bits and pieces of it
- Cathedrall wall: another band standard, it's a true gem, although I don't really like the use of 'metal box echo' background vocals...
- Estonia/Memory of water: a couple of unneeded remixes from two tracks of their previous album 'This strange engine'.

I do recommend you get this album, but get the other ones first...

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