Customer Reviews

Pure

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Fantastic! Utterly fantastic! It is so easy to see why Pure garnered the "Album of the Year" at the Classic Rock Society Awards. This CD is stellar from start to finish. What never ceases to amaze me is how Nick Barrett can release CD after CD that are each classics in their own rights. The quality of music that is consistently delivered by Pendragon is nothing short of amazing. We always have to wait 3 or 4 years for a new Pendragon release but boy is the wait always worth it!

I cannot even review Pure "cut by cut" because each track seems to eclipse the one which precedes it. You are immediately caught up in this CD with in the first minute and it only gets better from there.
Nick's voice and guitar playing have never sounded better. His great accent is alive and well. Clive Nolan again puts in a legendary keyboard performance. Scott Higham replaces Fudge Smith on drums (who was no slacker himself) and his drumming nearly eclipses Mike Portnoy. Round this out with Peter Gee's rock solid bass and Pure is a tour de force.

Pendragon has carved out their own sound over the years, so to try to categorize them in "Genesis, Pink Floyd, or Yes categories" (which so often happens) is a crime. As new Prog bands come along we should start saying that they sound like Pendragon!

I cannot recommend this CD strongly enough. If you do not obtain a copy you are missing one of the best Prog albums to come along in the past year, if not two. I don't pass out 5 stars freely, but in the case of Pure I would give it a 6 if I could!!

I thought I had already reviewed this album, but glancing at it, I see that I hadn't. I bought this album when it first came out, and I've listened to it a lot of times since. There are few albums that I don't get tired of after 3 or 4 listens, but this just keeps impressing me. The music is great. The playing is great. This is Pendragon at their best (of course, I think all of their albums are Pendragon at their best). I also agree with the previous reviewer that it would be hard to treat any of the tracks as separate. The album is a whole, and the pieces flow into each other. I also love the little hat tips to classic Yes, and even I think Mike Oldfield at one point. Nick Barrett and company deserve far more recognition than they get. I would rank them among the all time best progressive rock groups that I've heard.

After listening to the samples, this sounded like a winner...but the short excerpts of lengthy songs belied the essence of the music. It was more noise than integrated tones. Bordered on basic-poor heavy metal