One must at the drastic negative reviews probably just take into account that something completely different was expected - what one but after the last two or three albums eigentich could not wait. This he is now the retreaded Pendragon style, not quite as proggy for atmospheric melodies and blissful. Sure, old fans may be alienated ... I belong since "Pure" to the new fans, and "Men Who Climb Mountains" I like them better than ever. Of course, also a matter of taste. But regardless of you have to make the unity and intensity this album bill, and I think this bill goes on. I feel it is worth highlighting that it is Barrett managed to get a not to accept readily pop-compliant thread without hurting your itself: the question of why men always have to look for new, ever larger goals, obsessed by delusions (a topic that me, by the way, also very intrigued) - on ambiguous manner with many nuances. The drama and ambivalence of "Men Who Climb Mountains" has been implemented in any case musically coherent. The tension and emotion adheres to the end and find a climax in "Explorers of the Infinite" with a hook for eternity: "pushing on up forever ... Why God Only Knows?".
