OCTOPUS is probably geradliniegste album of Gentle Giant, which worked with the first three discs, which are hard to beat in complexity and variety hardly an excellent reputation in the scene. The Shulman brothers go here layered and controlled to plants than on their 1970 debut disc appeared, but immensely more stringent and piano-heavy, as on the previous. The listener expects a varied but geradlinieges song concept that is consistent with the idea overkill the first plates, but without losing the clear, straighte line of sight. Beautiful, delicate sounds can be found here in heaps, to rock melodies and subtle percussion arrangements. The songs are less dodgy, but very progressive and sophisticated. THE ADVENT OF Panurge example, is a song full of depth, complexity and economical instruments easier. A piece that "stringent" most fulfills the predicate and this defines the most eloquent in the Gentle Giant Discography. Other highlights of this almost epic structure that I even put that on par with the debut, are A CRY FOR EVERYONE, KNOTS, DOG'S LIFE and RIVER. The compositions take some time until they open up, but then an excellent Progressive revealed rock album full of depth and acrobatic flights of that amount to an enthralling rollercoaster ride. Despite the direct concept bursting OCTOPUS full of ideas. An album that is best sounds while learning during the study period. BUY!
