Marillion – Less Is More
Marillion - Less Is More
For the ordinary mortal sounds almost unbelievable, but even experienced players sometimes like routine. Always again that writing, recording and touring. For his sixteenth studio album, Marillion therefore decided that a treadmill once abandoned by acoustic arrangements of existing material to bring.
This sounds like a simple intikkertje, but appearances are deceiving. Less Is More contains mainly original epic tracks that at first glance hardly play unplugged. Yet tackling the new arrangements particularly good, especially when unexpected jazz (The Space and If My Heart Were a Ball) or blues (Quartz) is floating above. Hard as love best illustrates what the experiment last summer in Marillion’s own Racket Studio Program: chords, melodies and even structures change without sacrificing the visibility of the music.
In Less Is More are also songs like Go, Memory of Water and the unreleased It’s Not Your Fault, the only duet between piano and singing. The down-tempo dominates, as a subdued, intimate and extremely consistent album poses. The emotion is more than ever worn by singer Steve Hogarth. In the space that the minimum packages offer him, he still heard a very strong vote each. As sung at the serene Out Of This World, a heartbreaking song that probably no fan ever thought that without reinforcement as well as the original would sound. Less Is More is clearly become more than just a snack.
