Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Big Big Train - The Difference Machine (2007)

Year: 30 August 2007 (CD 2010)
Label: English Electric Recordings (UK), EERCD007
Style: Progressive Rock, New Prog
Country: Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Time: 58:41
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 372 Mb

TDM is a concept album exploring chaos theory, communication, failure, death, loss, and bereavement. The story is of the death of an individual, which was linked to an exploding star in a distant galaxy. There are more influences of Van der Graaf Generator, Genesis, Mew, Sigur Ros and King Crimson throughout the album.
Big Big Train are an English progressive rock band formed in Bournemouth in 1990. The current line-up includes band founder Gregory Spawton (bass, guitars and keyboards), along with Nick D'Virgilio (drums, guitars and keyboards) and Rikard Sjoblom (guitars and keyboards). Until 2009, the band were active as a predominantly studio project led by Spawton and co-founder Andy Poole (guitars, bass and keyboards), who departed the band in 2018, with changing line-ups and guest musicians. They have released fourteen studio albums and six EPs.
After starting out as an independent band, Big Big Train were signed to Giant Electric Pea from 1993 to 1998 and distributed their releases through their own website. Since their sixth album, The Underfall Yard, which received critical acclaim from the progressive rock community, a more stable line-up has been established, and the band performed their first live concerts in 17 years at Kings Place, London, in August 2015. The gigs were voted Event of the Year by the readers of Prog magazine. Stone & Steel, a Blu-ray featuring the 2014 rehearsals at Real World Studios and four of the songs performed at Kings Place, was released on 21 March 2016. Big Big Train were the winners of the Breakthrough Award at the Progressive Music Awards held at Kew Gardens, London on 3 September 2013, and have been nominated in several other categories in recent years. The band's latest studio album, Welcome to the Planet, was released in January 2022. Their previous studio album, Common Ground, was released in July 2021.
Big Big Train embarked on their first UK tour in October 2019. Scheduled dates for the band's first ever North American and European tours in 2020 were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lead vocalist David Longdon died on 20 November 2021, aged 56.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Big_Train)

01. Hope This Finds You (03:11)
02. Perfect Cosmic Storm (14:40)
03. Breathing Space (01:47)
04. Pick Up If You're There (13:40)
05. From The Wide Open Sea (01:22)
06. Hope You Made It (03:46)
07. Saltwater Falling On Uneven Ground (12:38)
08. Summer's Lease (07:34)

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