Classic Prog its finest

An album that has even surpassed my expectations after the great predecessor! English Electric Part 2 contains everything that has, namely classic prog at its finest, with distinct echoes of Genesis (until about 1978), with musicians, all masters of their trade and with a clear, yet airy and permeable concept. In addition, on this album wonderful melodies and melancholic feeling gets even more intense, more noticeable. Especially, if you like English literature from the first half of the last century that this contrast between nature and industrialization discussed earlier (hard work, honest people, living between rurality and mechanization) is drawn into a maelstrom of images and emotions. It has become rare that artists from the field of popular music take care of a seemingly little current topic and this so seriously and carefully implement, of the texts about the arrangements and musical structures through to the artwork. Despite the stringency and force is applied but nowhere thick, the work radiates in all restraint by itself.
The accusation that the Big Big Train is made is, of course, the music was not on its own. In fact you will be here looking for innovation and experiment in vain if you're looking for it. For me it is crucial that this match stylistic devices and statement congenially that this music is enough to delightfully relaxed way itself and not plundered models, but be appreciated, according to the motto: We want to show how alive this music is still how much yet Inside is what inexhaustible reservoir is available to us and how we know how to use it.