Friday, August 12, 2022

Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet (2022)

The 15th album from this band from England.

The band was a seven piece big band with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, violin, keyboards, female and male vocals.

This is the final Richard Longdon album, recorded before he so sadly was taken from his family and the rest of us in a car accident.

Life is not fair.

The band delivers us some more pastoral symphonic prog. This time, fifty minutes of it.

David Longdon's vocals are unique and will be massively missed in the years to come.  He was one of the best vocalists in today's progressive rock scene.

The band has set the bar/standard and expectations high on the previous albums and I was expecting a very good album again from the band.

That is what I got and this album is another winner from this band. 

I fear for the future of this band. But they have at least released fifteen albums which has established them as one of the better bands in the history of progressive rock.

3.5 points

 

 


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