Genre: Prog rock
Places I remember: Music shop in St Lukes
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: Along the Shoreline (on YouTube, the album is not available on Spotify)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: Along the Shoreline (on YouTube, the album is not available on Spotify)
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8
Active compensatory factors: Pink Floyd's Rick Wright made two solo albums, this was his second. I played it a lot back in the late nineties when I was senior Housemaster at School House (Mt. Albert Grammar). Listening to it again now made me instantly visualise my office.
Active compensatory factors: Pink Floyd's Rick Wright made two solo albums, this was his second. I played it a lot back in the late nineties when I was senior Housemaster at School House (Mt. Albert Grammar). Listening to it again now made me instantly visualise my office.
It's very atmospheric, very prog. It sounds like an album Steven Wilson could have come up with, given its subject matter and method of conveyance (it's moody).
The album is a four-part concept album based on his then wife's battle with depression. Rick is very empathetic to this struggle. Sinéad O'Connor (another sufferer) sings lead on two songs - Reaching for the Rail and Breakthrough. Rick sings lead on the other songs.
His keyboards are always a highlight - no difference here. It can get a tad bleak at times (Roger Waters style bleak) but the music has its uplifting moments.
Where do they all belong? Wet Dream, his first solo album, is one to look out for.
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