![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s got enough continuity with Similitude to feel like a genuine sequel, but also enough musical and lyrical freshness to stand on its own merits. So I gave The Great Adventure a chance - and I’m glad I did. At this point, along with the two Testimony sets and ?, Similitude is firmly ensconced in my Top Ten of Morse-led albums. And on the evidence of the Similitude of a Dream Live and Morsefest 2017 videos, the work got sharper, more dramatic and more engrossing the more the NMB played it. (Yes, this lifelong Lutheran still bore psychological scars from Morse’s Sola Scriptura.) But, to my ears, Morse and crew rose to the challenge, unreeling Bunyan’s basic narrative with an enticing flow of steady invention, high style, and hearty commitment. A double album based on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress sounded like a disaster in the making to me. ![]() A concept album that’s a sequel to their previous concept album? Might Neal, Eric Gillette, Bill Hubauer, Randy George and the ever-prolific Mike Portnoy have finally taken this “epic of epic epicness” thing too far?īut then, I was skeptical about 2016’s The Similitude of a Dream, too. I was skeptical when I heard about the Neal Morse Band’s new project. ![]()
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