Just about squeaks a 2 for me on the strength of the first couple of tracks. There's the odd interesting instrumental bit, but it's 50% narrative and just strange. It's a gibberish fairy tale about someone looking for the other half of the moon, consulting a fly and a tramp. Lots of narration, and the worst of prog rock weirdness. I had a quick google and this is the other side of the album, which I guess gives them an excuse for a stylistic change. Lazy Sunday is next, this is the one that is miles ahead in the Spotify listening numbers, but it's like Madness trying to do prog rock. Song of a Baker is better, great guitar in this. at least until it spends a couple of minutes at the end in a long, drawn out, instrumental finish. Then Rene, a song about a prostitute at the docks which if you'd told me was from a Monty Python sketch I would've 100% believed you. The next track is filler, feels a lot longer than two and a half minutes (partially because it does that thing where it fades out and fades back in again). The album starts off okay, a reasonably decent instrumental to kick us off followed by Afterglow (Of Your Love) which is great.
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