Where are they now, the ones we never knew, the rats in the walls, the dead drunks in the pubs?
Gone for good, vanished like ghosts with aching bladders just before the dawn, and never a word, and never a promise.
Gone, gone back, because here be monsters, excommunicated, incommunicado, but powerful still.
Where are they now, the ones we used to dream of, in foreign languages, on foreign shores, pointing the ways to Ithacas and crookedly smiling?
Swallowed, digested, turned inside out to crushed olive pits, gone with the ravens, gone with the bears, out the windows, down the roads, away from the bright and semi-bright apartments, into the night, into the sewers, out the other side.
And left here, alone at last, we look back and we look forward and what do we see?
Props are props and rivers are rivers, we have to change our lives, we have to change our patterns, but there’s always time to think it over one more time, until next time and the next and the next, until there’s no more time left, but, wait a minute, time does not exist, there is no time, there is no time, and so, finally, that too is taken care of.
ii. Equinox
Slow water
cushioning our footsteps -
phantom pain.
The album takes off nicely with David Longdon's "The Strangest Times", but then gets into immediate free fall and deeply underwater for the next few tracks, quite unexpectedly. Fortunately, it recovers with Nick D'Virgilio's "Apollo" (hey, this guy CAN write good music, although he hides this ability most of the time) and the remaining three tracks, one of which is another Longdon masterpiece. So in the end the final impression is somewhat in the positive range. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Such an amazing album, but unfortunately it's hard to find on vinyl. Luckily this version has a couple bonus tracks which is nice. If you enjoy prog rock you're gonna love this! danclapp
In the Prog Archives, this is the only album from this millennium to crack the top 45 on the all time list. The lovable grognards over there can't seem to get enough of Wobbler, and neither can I. Leterren