"Spectral Mornings""Spectral Mornings"This is Steve's third or fourth solo album, and widely considered to be his best, which makes me shudder to think what the others must sound like. :) Ok, that was unfair. But seriously, the music here isn't anything like what I expected. True, most of the instrumental parts do sound VERY much like Genesis (indeed, the acoustic break in "Virgin and the Gypsy" sounds identical to a similar break in "Eleventh Earl of Mar"!), and the vocal parts, which I assume are sung by Steve himself, sound oddly similar to the first solo albums by former bandmates Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. But there's a wide variety of other musical styles in here as well...including straight up KABUKI MUSIC in "The Red Flower", and a bizarre interpretation of Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" (better known by many as "The Omen" theme song) in "Clocks". I really don't know what to make of this album, yet. But it won't deter me from filling up this collection because, you know, I'm obsessive like that. :)
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