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trust me, trust me... 5-star rating well-deserved... personally, I appreciate the reflections on "metamorphosis" less than the suite "the wizard's garden"... prog, classical, lyrical, and rock intertwined in 16 minutes that won't let you disengage for even a second... never repetitive, never boring, never merely virtuosic, with exceptional melodic passages... one of the most beautiful suites in progressive music, on par with tracks like supper's ready or lighthouse keepers and nine feet underground... the review is very good, succinct just the right amount, and explanatory.

my favorite of the talking heads...great analysis from both the review and the comments

exceptionally modern... I am a lover of "medieval" progressive à la Genesis, but this album arrives today as something new... the most beautiful alongside The Court

I just re-listened to pioneers... the piece you mentioned is stunning... and even after, when it kicks back in with the rest of the instrumentation...

let's say that in some pieces they are more modern, while in others they seem more dated... but even in this case, they drive me crazy... perhaps precisely because of this sense of the past...

I've only listened to Godbluff and World Record and I didn't like them... if you tell me that the new one (I know it’s out, by the way) is good, I think I might give it a listen...

Always to the anonymous... you’re right, they haven’t aged very well... I listened to something from "godbluff" onwards and it’s all very virtuosic and self-indulgent (I admit I stopped after a few listens, so it’s always possible that I might rethink this)... with the exception of the beautiful song "the undercover man"... however, "the least," "h to he," and "pawn hearts" are fantastic in my opinion and don’t seem too dated at all... just think of "house with no door" and "man-erg," to cite two rather "modern" songs.

For the anonymous one... yes, in fact I said that a certain influence, whether intentional or not, the VDGG will have had on the dark-wave... however, they are not defined as "dark" because they were part of that movement from the late 70s to the early 80s, primarily for temporal reasons... musically they can be seen as forerunners but only up to a certain point... their progressive vein is too pronounced, unlike in dark-wave.

The attribute "dark" for Van der Graaf has nothing to do with dark wave; okay, maybe Joy Division, The Cure, Bauhaus, and company have taken a little from VDGG, but the definition, as Music Man perfectly explains, refers to their atmospheres... after all, have you read the playlist of this album? Killer, House with No Door, Lost... such cheerful titles, right? As for the lyrics, I only know those of the first two songs... Killer is the emblem of modern anguish and alienation, House with No Door too, and in a very poetic way... this verse drives me crazy: "there's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in, falling through my head as I try to think out time"... I can really feel the rain falling on me...

fantastic album! even though the only track I like a bit less is actually lost... well, de gustibus as usual... genius the tempo change around the middle of killer, after the line "please come and help me" mentioned in the review... spine-tingling... there's a bit of disorder in the review but it's very good anyway