The second album from this artist from Great Britain.
Fish was doing the main vocals here.
He had help from numerous guests who provided drums, percussion, bass, guitars, fiddle, accordion, keyboards, whistles and backing vocals.
I was not impressed by his 1990 debut album Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors. Too unfocused, too much all over the place.
I therefore did not have much hope for Internal Exile.
On this forty-five minutes long album, I am reviewing the one hour long remastered album, Fish sounds more like himself on the last two Marillion albums. And there is indeed a lot of comparissons to Clutching At Straws here.
A more downtuned and restrained Clutching At Straws, that is. His vocals is excellent and he is a master oft these mid-tempo songs. Songs which is a blend of neo-prog and folk rock.
Most of the songs are introspective and rather beautiful in their melancholy.
Most of the songs are very good. The vocals is adding a lot to these songs and are indeed essential for these songs.
This is indeed a very good album and one you should check out.
3.5 points
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