The debut album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars and keyboards.
This is a band and indeed a record I observed with great interest in my childhood and youth. But I never got this album until recently. I got all their albums and they will be reviewed in this blog during the coming weeks.
This album and indeed the band was a sensation back in those days and this album sold well over one million copies world wide. That marks out this band as one of the more weird bands in the history of modern popular music.
The music on this thirty-seven minutes long album is a blend of neo-classical music, electronica and folk music. The music is pretty softly spoken and has a lot of air and elegance. The guitars are both acoustic and electric. I feared this was going to be a new-age album, due to the popularity of everything new-age back in those years. But I was thankfully wrong. The music is pretty dynamic with a lot of details.
There are a lot of Mike Oldfield references here. I believe Mike Oldfield and Sky shares a lot of fans. And this album also spawned a huge hit in the form of Cannonball who closes side 1 on the LP. That song was included in the massive grossing Dear Hunter movie soundtrack and also featured in the movie itself.
The final half is a twenty minutes long opus. A pretty good opus too.
The result is a surprise to me as I did not expect that it was that good. This is indeed a good album and one to check out.
3 points
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