Tracks
- Close to the Edge
- And You and I
- Siberian Khatru
Close to the Edge is an impenetrable album. The music is progressive rock. It's a concept album—obviously. Fortunately, for the band, they are able to come up with enough "concept" to avoid adding filler.
Like all progressive rock albums, this one suffers from self-indulgence. Beautiful, elaborate, complex and technical music is created to support a supposed revelation of profound and life-altering truth, but which makes little sense, either logically or lyrically. Either that or I'm too dimwitted to appreciate the truth within. Ultimately, this is music which is created to serve itself.
This is a good album musically, though. Unlike a lot of prog rock, the music doesn't assault the listener. This album features prog rock at its best, so it should be on the 1001 Albums list.
All three songs are quite good. I prefer the last two over the first, though.
★★★★★★★★★☆
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