Lemmings (Including Gog)/Man Erg/a Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
Pawn Hearts from the progressive British band Van Der Graaf Generator comprises three extended tracks, the final one involving much studio experimentation that was impossible to recreate in a live setting.
“Pawn Hearts makes good on the promise of its predecessors, insofar as the band manages to flesh out Hammill's lyrical and songwriting vision more cohesively, and provide some of the most interesting, intense and engaging music they'd so far committed to tape.”
“Pawn Hearts is without a doubt one of the greatest progressive rock albums ever released. Although it only has three songs, every one is a knockout; they are all wonderful and expansive multi-part epics. The greatest is the lengthy A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers which is one of the most amazing songs you'll ever hear.”
“The big problem is that this is an extremely dense, layered album, to the point where I'd honestly consider it cluttered. VDGG just went really, really crazy with the overdubbing on this. It’s all very chaotic and metaphysical I still have no idea exactly what's going on, and at this point I guess I probably never will.”
“This is difficult listening and themes of despair and paranoia abound, which are wonderfully brought to life in all of their twisted glory with Hamill's anguished lyrics.”
“This album is brooding, arty and intellectual and a whole host of other adjectives, but even if you hate the genre you should give this one a chance. The songwriting is great, with soaring, beautiful melodies interspersed with difficult, harsh, almost freeform instrumental passages. Peter's voice can be shrill and desperate, or soft and beautiful, and that goes for all the other instruments as well.”
“Generally a bit more adventurous where they gladly attack you with a brash, provocative style of crashing and collapsing waves of atonal screeching musical neurosis. Side by side with this you can expect weirdly non-directional wanderings into a land of noisy, minimal keyboard and percussion obscurity.”
”What you get is highly experimental progressive rock (almost psychedelic at times), which combines complex structures with melodies and at the same time quite nice noisiness. Well written, and the production supports the sound really well.”
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