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Track Listings
| 1. Costa del Slough |
| 2. Under The Sun |
| 3. The Answering Machine |
| 4. Three Minute Boy |
| 5. Now She'll Never Know |
| 6. These Chains |
| 7. Born To Run |
| 8. Cathedral Wall |
| 9. A Few Words For The Dead |
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Uncharacteristic opener, "Costa Del Slough" is a slice of whimsical Noel Coward-style comedy, but is forgotten immediately in the wake of the loud and belligerent "Under The Sun", all frantic guitar riffery and rapid-fire percussion. A further wall of noise then hits with "The Answering Machine", a song about communication breaking down in a relationship, which ends with a teeth-wrenching fuzzed-up bout of keyboard wrestling from keysman Mark Kelly.
A typically huge-sounding Marillion song - not at all based on the life story of a certain Mancunian pop act! - follows with "Three Minute Boy" before the pace slows again for the heartbreaking ballad "Now She'll Never Know". This is a truly beautiful song, Steve Hogarth's vocals every bit as emotional as ever. More high-grade drama follows with the single "These Chains", and a full-on blues excursion the like of which the band have never attempted before in "Born To Run" (no relation to the Springsteen song of the same name!), Steve Rothery's guitar playing proving to be more than a match for this latest stylistic departure.
The album ends with two very different songs: the powerful rocker "Cathedral Wall", a song about the horrors of insomnia, and the atmospheric and meandering epic, "A Few Words For The Dead", which tells us why tradition is not always a good thing, and why we have so much to learn about what is worth hanging onto in life.
"Radiation" may puzzle a few fans with its markedly different sound, but in terms of the material, this is one of Marillion's strongest recordings of recent years. If this album had been produced by a new band, they'd be getting rave reviews. Listen without prejudice!
What Radiation does lack (debatably) is a true classic Marillion track - however, this actually helps the album seem more cohesive than many of the other Hogarth sets. The strong rocky opener, Under The Sun, sets the pace and is continued by the loud but light-hearted Answering Machine. However then the album surprises you as it evolves into a vastly more complex and interesting beast. Three Minute Boy builds to a shattering crescendo. Born To Run displays a previously untapped blues tint. Cathedral Wall is as bombastic as any song the band have attempted. But the standout is the fascinating closer with a tint of the Amazonian, A Few Words For The Dead. This is kind of Marillion attempting Massive Attack and pulling off an entrancing recording.
All in all Radiation is often experimental but still extremely listenable. A great addition to any collection and an album that is more accessible than many non-Marillion converts might imagine.
The album itself is a bit different to the usual Marillion sound but I've found it does grow on you... Read more
sorry but this is an awful album, a clumsy collection of experimental low key oddities that don't work. Read more
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