Had a few listens to the album, and aside from the tracks that start and finish off Phase 1 , which are too short to really go anywhere, just teasers, and not really getting into Ballard Of Fat Paul and Stop Messing With My Heart You Big Gorilla, I thought all of the other tracks were fantastic, which is why I listened to it three times, straight through. Phase 1 in particular is excellent. A fine 8/10 effort and I thoroughly recommend it.
One thing though...why only include SOME of the lyrics, and not all? I've noticed this with other Cope albums, and some of us old gits went to too many loud gigs in the past, so can't always pick up every word, or can't remember them, so the lyrics are extremely useful to have, especially when Julian obviously invests a lot of time and effort into them.
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