Pink Floyd immediately spring to mind and then that thought dissipates and is replaced by Clannad, quite an admixture of impressions. The first track feels a little dated in that chillout newage manner. Dawn of Mind, brings in the necessity of the occidental but without the profundity. Alone Again, and here I am again. Doing wrong by doing good and people hold it against me. Petty jealousies are so tardy, I can't even be bothered going on.
Destiny, something I don't believe in totally. I think it's a mix of things but if it does exist it has to have a sense of the spirit in it and not be a superficial excuse for the events on the surface of things. I Wonder says it all. Someone once argued with me that there life was a matter of choices they made and that their life was right. Ontology has never sat will with me. Deep calls to deep and I don't feel the call. It talks the talk, but does not walk the walk.
However, A Paradise Lost has something more worthwhile in it and relevant topically. We have lost it, big style and I fear it is too late to repair the damage done. A New World presents me with the same sounds again, in a slightly different form and is the most drama experienced thus far. The title track, is usually well-aspected and represents the epitome of the concept of an album. I am not even sure I would want to fall asleep to this playing in my ears, to be honest.
Of Wars and Powers is more like it, and has the passion I expect even of a chillout album. Nice dramaturgy. And it took the contemplation of war to wake it up. Then we go back down the scale, to The Drifter, which surely does drift, but too aimlessly for my liking. In Your Heart sounds like the first track again. There Is No End... hits the nail right on the head. The question is: How do you get there? Marked this one on track nine chiefly, the rest is definitely chillout to the max, but rather dull sounding, as if it was too easily done for the sake of it.
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