What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

Listening to Billy Sherwood’s Citizen. It’s a concept album of sorts, for each song placing a citizen of the world in a certain context and era – some titles, for example, “The Great Depression”, “The Age of the Atom”, “Empire”, and so on. There are contributions on this release from Chris Squire (his last recording), Alan Parsons, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett and many more. Some tracks I enjoyed more than others – and while it doesn’t absolutely enthral me, on the whole it seems very nicely executed, intelligent, and not too overblown, which is such a relief – it’s always a fine line IMHO and the balance can so easily be upset!

May have to listen again, but this song is my favourite so far, with Colin Moulding of XTC taking the lead vocal – “Just Galileo and Me” …

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