What the title suite lacks in sonic and perhaps compositional excellence, it makes up for in budget ambition-which ultimately in my book makes it a highly listenable album today. The fact is, these criticisms plagued all PF’s studio output up until Meddle. Some of the criticisms leveled against the album were that the title track was poorly recorded/produced/performed (valid) that Geesin’s arrangements were intrusive and ill-conceived (not valid, imo) and also that the second half was completely unfocused and undeveloped (also quite valid). In the PF creative trajectory, the album was a direct stepping stone to their more fully-realized work on Echoes, which was in turn a straight-thru line to the long form conceptual work on DSotM- so I would say, historically AHM is very important. I enjoy the album, pretty much all the way thru, with the exception of “If”, which is dreadfully ponderous and overlong by about two and half minutes.
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