#102
April 13 1984
Camel
Stationary Traveller
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Pressure Points
Missing
What starts out with an epic synth driven overture gives way quickly to pedestrian prog. Ostensibly a concept album about German refugees trying to cross from East Berlin to West Berlin this lacks the requisite menace for the subject matter.
When the album does successfully emulate the frenetic energy it’s beset by pretty pedestrian lyric work (“Cloak and Dagger Man”) and then there are the songs like “Fingertips” which I struggle to see how they fit into the narrative. If they even do.
It speaks volumes that the best tracks here are the instrumentals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNcAtSOIht4&list=PL8a8cutYP7fqP6zirQYeppsnSt_DCtkIe
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