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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you love music with variable time signatures, driving bass, power chords mixed with crying guitar lines and great swathes of synthesisers and vocals from the heart rather than sterilised by the producers desk - this album is a must.
Anyone who grew up with Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and ELP should give this a listen.
Does it break new ground? well a bit, but if you like the prog rock genre, you don't want the basics messed around too much.
Top tip - play the first track very loud. You won't have heard this bass sound before. Its brilliant.
Anyone who grew up with Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and ELP should give this a listen.
Does it break new ground? well a bit, but if you like the prog rock genre, you don't want the basics messed around too much.
Top tip - play the first track very loud. You won't have heard this bass sound before. Its brilliant.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is one of those rare albums that takes a couple of listens before you "get it" and then becomes one of your essential-to-life classics. My initial "yeah, great album" turned into a whole new understanding after a few spins and it's quickly become my all time favourite album. It has everything: brilliant melodies (for which Arena are famous), amazingly gripping vocal performances, not only by the main vocalist Rob Sowden, but the backing vocals are fabulous as well, fascinating lyrics (puts most other concept albums to shame), great sound and album artwork you'll want to use as wallpaper - on your actual walls! This is the ultimate "if you're going to buy one album this year" recommendation!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
You know how it is. Something that, previously, hadn't quite gelled suddenly clicks - hits you "like a two ton heavy thing" as Queensryche once remarked - and you spend the next week thinking it's the best thing you've heard in your entire life. Arena's most recent studio album Contagion is just such a beast - a fine work, but ultimately one that didn't connect with me in the same was that it's predecessor Immortal? or the live Breakfast In Biarritz did. Or at least it didn't until the small hours of last Sunday morning, when I must have dislodged a chunk of earwax and all of a sudden the world made sense.
It's got soaring guitar. It's got walls of swirling keyboards. It's got lots of other bits, too - in fact it's got all the ingredients of a classic album. There isn't a less than excellent track on it, but if I had to pick out a couple that are currently holding my attention, I'd go for "Witch Hunt" (rapidly attaining anthem status, chez Jones) and the gorgeous "Spectre At The Feast". If the latter doesn't give you goose-pimples then you need a new Hi-Fi. Or possibly a completely new head.
The prog-dog's danglies :-)
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Classic...
A magic c/d John lets rip on guitar it is a joy to hear..Too many good songs to name, just buy the thing you won`t of made a mistake...
Published on 21 May 2006 by P. Linden
Superb prog...but mini-disc gave me the real Contagion
This is, imho, a phenomenal album, with soaring guitar solos, great lyrics and vocals and superb keyboards. Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2005 by Jacob Sladder
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