Containing nearly two hours of great new Marillion music, I've fallen in love with this record.
Marillion is a British progressive rock band who are best known in America for the music they made more than twenty years ago. Back in the eighties, led by a lanky lead vocalist called Fish, Marillion was primarily known for its theatrical stage performances where Fish often dressed in a variety of costumes.…
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26 - Aros74
Marillion will never be the same again without Fish but still im a hardcore fan.
You just have appriciate that the band has two era´s.
Albums like Script, Fugazi, Misplaced & Clutching are albums i want to take with me in coffin the day i die. No question about that.
But never forget the new era with albums like Brave, Marbles and the new one Happiness is the road.
What im really wondering tho is what the hell has happned to Fish? I gave up his music after the album Sunsets on empire.
The only thing that has made me happy the last few years is his DVD Return to childhood celebratring 20 years of the classic album Misplaced Childhood.
Even tho Marillion sound so different today im addicted forever and ever.
27 - marillion fan
i want that album but i cant find it and they dont ship it to my country lebanon
28 - Stephanie
You can buy the album directly from Marillion and we ship to anywhere in the world!
29 - Lloyd
It's great to see so many comments regarding Marillion. I have been a fan for 20+ years now. In my humble opinion they go from strength to strength with almost every album realease (a couple of exceptions being Radiation and Somewhere Else). To date Marbles has been the Masterpiece of a 30 year career. I would urge any sceptics to listen with an open mind to tracks such as Neverland, Invisible Man, Geni and Fantastic Place, Pure musicle genius. The new album once again takes them to new hieghts. Original and yet still classic 'H's' Marillion.
Talk of 'Prog Rock' is better left in the 80's in my view. There is somthing in this album to cater for almost all musical tastes. Rock, Funk, Soul and Pop all make an appearance here, and beautifuly crafted together.
Marillion fill the hole that Pink Floyd have left.
30 - Teddemans
@Aros74
Fish is still alive and kicking, his last album "13th Star" is a gem! Far better than "Felinni Days". The album "Field of crows" was certainly an improvement on FD, but as "13th Star" is a concept album, it hints to the Marillion era, though musically it's a bit different.
He performed a couple of weeks ago here in the Netherlands and although his voice begins to give in from all the booze, he is still a first class entertainer.
Don't know if Fish is really fallen off your radar, but here's the url to his official website.
And to stay on topic: Happiness is the Road is one hell of an album! I pre-ordered a year ago and it was well worth the wait. "Trap the Spark" made me cry; it was a long time since a song did that to me...
31 - Good Lt.
This is a good album I didn't think (or know) so at first - particularly with "The Hard Shoulder, but the coherency of first disc worked pretty well the first or second listen through. It took a few months for little great moments like the increasingly strengthening reprises of the chorus throughout "State of Mind," or the crisp, clean, cavernous sound of parts of "This Train..." or the second half glory of "Essence" began to emerge through the dream-like haze of the Essence set. The shimmering "Wrapped up in Time" has a nice Radiohead-ish chorus-ish passage. "Woke Up" comes in briskly with a nice slow-motion, anthemic contribution. This first disc is really great, sprinkled with a little experimentation, a unified whole for the chaser and a banging closer with the album's title track. The release really would have been smashing and fine with the first disc and maybe two or three others from the second disc for completion.
The second disc took a little longer - I wanted to internalize the first disc, and put the second one on hold until I had done so. I liked "The Man From the Planet Marzipan - the undulating groove of the track fit in nice with the simple, layered keyboard tracks. It just popped for me. The last track, "Real tears for Sale," Is a really Hogarth-era great Marillion song. "Half the World" is also OK and single-ish, and "Asylum Satellit #" is a real insidious, beautiful, low-key stunner (the longest track on the album, natch).
All in all, a great, painstaking, layered effort -a damn sight better than Somewhere Else (not as good as "Marbles"), and it makes me anxious to hear what's next for this fabulous and inspiring band.
Let the sprawling pseudo-opus of this worthy group of artists sink in with a few glasses of wine here and there. It's going to end up being a dark horse favorite in everyone's Marillion collection.
Four out of Five stars.