Album title: Grimspound
Artist: Big Big Train
Genre: Progressive Rock
Nationality: English
Release date: April 28
Position in Discography: Tenth
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Familiar with this artist? Yes
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Very
Average RYM Score: 3.46
Ah, you know it's prog rock when an album begins with a twelve-minute track and has two others over ten!
I'm a big fan of Big Big Train so I expect this to be right up my street, and so far it is, definitely. A lot of it is, if you know the band you'll be unsurprised to hear, a sort of pastoral Genesis thing, reminiscent of their early seventies work. You know the kind of thing: lots of flute, violin and shimmering piano, and the Genesis influence is noted nowhere more strongly than in “Experimental Gentlemen”, where you think BBT have metamorphosed into not seventies but eighties or even nineties Genesis. Some lovely acoustic guitar in “Meadowland”, and basically yeah, this is great stuff if you're into prog, but if you hate prog you will want to stamp all over this, stamp on it again and finally set fire to it, to make sure it's dead. Naturally, I love it, so up yours, prog haters!
Check out more from this artist? Yes
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Always
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