Happiness Is The Road - Marillion

Posted : 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Feb 12 7:09

It's always a pleasant surprise when you pre-order something, forget about it, and then find it sitting on your door mat. A case in point being "Happiness Is The Road", Marillion's 15th studio album which arrived this week. I'm a terrible person. I only have one other Marillion album, and that is "Script For A Jester's Tear", their very first album from 1983. The problem is that I like a lot of music but there is only so much I can listen to and/or afford to buy, so I have to spread my net wide, not deep. So what possessed me to order HitR? Part of it comes from the fairly unique model that Marillion use to make their material available. The recording was financed by a pre-ordering scheme whereby fans ordered about a year in advance and in return received a special edition box-set with ...Read more

Rating : 9/10