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  • Audio CD (7 May 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00005ASJ6
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Between You And Me
2. Quartz
3. Map Of The World
4. When I Meet God
5. The Fruit Of The Wild Rose
6. Separated Out
7. This Is The 21st Century
8. If My Heart Were A Ball It Would Roll Uphill

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The promotional blurb accompanying Marillion's 12th studio album Anoraknophobia (a venture funded entirely by the band's fans, 12,000 of whom stumped up the cash 12 months prior to its release) challenges music journalists to avoid using words like "progressive rock", "Genesis" and "dinosaur". "You're all wrong about Marillion, just put it on and listen to it," muses singer Steve Hogarth. While such sentiments could easily be paraphrased as "You'll be surprised how much this record doesn't sound like us"--hardly the sort of compliment anyone ought to be paying themselves--it's true that Anoraknophobia belongs much more to our time than the days when certain lambs lay down on Broadway. Even if efforts to "get with it" are intermittently over-eager--the 11-minute long "When I Meet God" dearly wishes it was The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"--there's much to admire in the shape of the genuinely pretty, summer wistfulness of "Fruit Of The Wild Rose", the stadium-rock competence of "Map of the World" or the Kula Shaker-esque psychedelic funfair racket of "Separated Out". --Kevin Maidment

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Marillion's thirteenth studio album moves away from their eighties prog style. This tuneful blend of rock, funk, jazz and blues has won acclaim from critics and fans alike.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Hoisted by their own petard, 2 Jun 2001
By A Customer
The last thing Marillion need is freedom. Take them away from a major label, or at least the need to communicate to an audience beyond their loyal fan base, and you get patchy, undynamic records like everything they've done since leaving EMI. And, sadly, this one too.

And for all Marillion's experimentalism, call it prog-rock or whatever, actually their best work has always been recognisably 'pop'. Listen to Misplaced Childhood and you'll hear ideas that are given no longer than they need; simple sketches stuck together to make a complex tapestry. Listen to Afraid Of Sunlight - by some distance the best record they've recorded with Steve Hogarth - and you can feel the musicianship of a technically gifted rock band being filtered through the demands of pop. That record saw Marillion combine passion, craft and (most important of all for a band full - and I don't mean this sarcastically - of so many good ideas) self-discipline.

Since Anoraknophobia sees them reunited with Afraid Of Sunlight producer Dave Meegan, hopes were high that the 'rillion had hit the jackpot again. But not by a long chalk. Oh, there's great ideas here, lovely moments - the first few minutes of Fruit Of The Wild Rose are gorgeous, likewise Quartz and This is the 21st Century. But it's all so long! And it lacks the urgency that all great music(do forgive me) possesses, fast ir slow, loud or soft, whether it's a Bill Evans piano solo, The Band swinging their way through Up On Cripple Creek, Radiohead angsting their way through their last few albums. For Marillion at their best, see Beautiful, King and the title track on Afraid of Sunlight.

Marillion are a really talented band. But all art exists in context. Marillion, no longer a pop band, lack that. Yet if they're not pop, what are they? They're too smart to just be a rock band, but they're not prog (except in their lack of editing skills), they're not trip hop and they're certainly not soul, although this album sees them touch on all these bases.

A disappointment, but perhaps also a stepping stone away from the Marillion of old and towards discovering a new identity. At the moment they're still playing with this new sound - which may explain the length of the songs (so very, very overextended). But just as Afraid of Sunlight was a refinement of the beauty but bombast of Brave, let's hope Anoraknophobia is the prequel to an album that takes this album's strengths but applies a razor to its indulgences.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a cd that will change your perceptions, 7 Mar 2004
By NotSoDickenz "Sized" (Warrington, Cheshire UK) - See all my reviews
  
Listen to track 1. Poppy isn't it? Track 2 - Bluesy/ballsy? Track 3 - Charty? And on....... It's Marillion, yes, they are still around! And they're still defying the entire music industry by releasing album after album which in my humble opinion blow away almost everyone else. You love it or hate it, that seems to be the way. If you listen to it, you'll love it. So do yourself a favour and start following the greatest band of the last 25 years. It's never too late...
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fishless Marillion and better for it, 27 Aug 2001
By A Customer
ANORAKNOPHOBIA is a fantastic achievement. The band has come up with a perfect balance, mixing contemporary and commercial with the creative integrity that we have come to expect from Marillion. Hogarth's vocals are as near perfect as ever. Trewavas, fresh from the success of his Transatlantic project, has clearly brought extra dimensions to his part. The bass lines in QUARTZ are incredibly funky and really make the track. MAP OF THE WORLD is a great no-nonsense rock tune, which the band intends to release as a single. WHEN I MEET GOD is a beautiful song that explores those overwhelming feelings of emotional fatigue we experience when we look around at the world and want to know why bad stuff happens? Hogarth's voice pleads with a Blake-like innocence for answers to his questions, leaving the listener wanting to give him a hug and tell him it will be okay in the morning. In fact, the nightmare angle is explored pretty intricately in the last track when H asks "Did you ever dream of running - and find you couldn't move?" - who hasn't? After I heard this album I did wonder just how much therapy its creators require, I hope that this album has helped relieve the members of Marillion of some of life's anxieties that they so passionately illustrate. I would advise anyone bored with the mundane celebrity and mediocrity of the charts to buy this album and experience a band that are relevant, talented and are still out there and able to make a brilliant record that can appeal to all!

Forget the critics and what is 'popular' Decide with your ears

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