Their most representative and celebrated album, rightly so. It's probably the album of their definitive maturity, a record where they manage to compose songs averaging 4 minutes while packing in all their imagination, technical skill, and the typical characteristics of Prog utilized in the best way, all in their absolutely inimitable style. Prog in 4 minutes, one could define it as the album of the octopus. The nice thing is that I realize that the ease of listening to the album is, in relation to the complexity of the compositions, impressive, thanks to its verve and superb melodic inspiration, elements that make the entire listening experience enjoyable, captivating, never pretentious. They had divine inspiration back then, who knows. All 8 songs are excellent, many of them are among the best in their repertoire, "The Advent of Panurge" (still Rabelais) "Knots", in short, the entire initial quartet, at least. And then there’s her, the masterpiece of Kerry Minnear's life as a composer and singer (when he sang, oh my...) the most beautiful song of the Gentle Giant.
Think Of Me With Kindness - Gentle Giant (1972)
