With Understanding Comes Appreciation
While it is focused on rarefied, intellectualized, long-form composition in an era when abstraction and complexity really meant something in the rock milieu, these diverse pieces have a direct emotional power, linger and replay themselves in the mind long after their most recent hearing. This is a sophisticated and beautifully crafted recording. This is probably one of the most, if not the most, accessible and digestible Rock-in-Opposition album you’ll find out there, yet It is still quite challenging for the casual and even for some more experienced listeners; while odd time signatures and dissonance are plenty present here, the way it was arranged makes it more appealing to the listener than other albums of this music style, so arguably this album could be the safest point of entry to it. An absolute masterpiece, and definitely my favorite Henry Cow album, and it has to say something, because their condensed yet wonderful flawless inventory set the bar not only for the Rock-in-Opposition movement, but the whole prog-rock realm.