What the hell did I just listen to? ...so much musical excess!
The opening (title) track is a journey from tinkling finger cymbals through various musical movements including some fantastic bass work. Bass seems to be a featured instrument in many of the prog-rock albums I've listened to so far on the list.
This first track gives way to more mellow songs. There's the delicate and beautiful "Book of Saturday", with it's graceful violin and backwards guitar duet; the proggy ballad of 'Exiles'; the rock riffs of 'Easy Money'; and again the proggy excesses of 'The Talking Drum' and the second part of the title track.
Brilliant album.
