The ninth album from this artist from Great Britain.
Fish did the vocals here.
Numerous guests added percussion, drums, bass, ebow, guitars, piano, organ, accordion, dulcimer, pclavinet, programmed strings, samples, loops and backing female vocals.
Fish returned three year after the lather lacklustre Field Of Crows. That was an album which did not played to his strenghts. Hence, it was a disappointment.
13th Star is one hour long and it sees Fish returning to this roots from the demo days Marillion and further back. No, it is not any old songs here.
The music here is dark, very dark at places. Fish was not in a good place when recording this album as several personal relationships were ending... ending with loud crashes and acrimony. He was not in a good place.
The music is also a blend of art-rock and neo-prog. This album is as far as he has ever returned to his days in Marillion. This is not by any means his attempt of returning to the days of the first two Marillion albums as there is still an ocean in musical expressions between those two albums and 13th Star.
Fish's vocals is brilliant and the guitarists delivers some good solos. The overall quality is good and this album is among his better albums and a good improvement on his last album.
3.5 points
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