Marillion-Fear (2016)

Marillion over four decades have carved one of the best reputations in progressive rock and have done so with a lot of talent, knowing how to capture that heir sound of Genesis and then provide a more personal seal. The band has had two very different stages, one first with a great Fish and another with a talented Steve Hogarth. After the entrance of the latter, the band's music was adding more elements of their own, they moved away from the first-time patterns and became increasingly diverse, embracing different sounds to end up reinventing themselves gradually, getting to achieve sounds at many anthological moments.

Fear makes his 18 studio album, an album that seems to us apocalyptic where the band tells us the details about a world without morals and the coming storm.

Marillion here leaves us an extremely atmospheric but very intense album, with texts of clear political tendency. It is not a subject in which Marillion have remained on the sidelines throughout his career, but it is true that since the previous album the trend is even greater.

Recall that this trend had already begun in the Fish era since its inception with 'Forgotten Sons', 'Fugazi', 'White feather', 'White Russian' ... and had continuity in the Hogarth era with themes such as 'Easter', 'Gaza' - with all the controversy it generated - or the album 'Brave', one of his key points in his career, where they all brought out real-world problems.

Fear describes the world without morals where we have lived (corrupt political class, banks rescued by all citizens and that do not return what we put together, unscrupulous companies and the world of business without moral ...) . 'It is not an album for the generation of mp3', nor for those who were born with technology as the main communication "... they are for those who have their feet on the ground and do not allow themselves to be manipulated by current networks such as internet and fake news current.

The album contains three main suites with their corresponding movements: "El Dorado", "The Leavers" and "The New Kings", plus two somewhat shorter compositions with the titles "Living in FEAR" and "White Paper", in addition to a Little epilogue.