The tracks on Views are not bad in my opinion, but... they're like "songs" somehow. Not much risk-taking involved.

After "One Times One" with its skillfully woven moods and unusual atmospheres I had expected something in a similar vein, maybe even more daring and experimental. We got that (in a way) with the Purple Diluvial disc. That's great, but we're talking about TD here, the sound innovators with 40 years of history: The cutting-edge material should be upfront and boldly on the new regular studio album, because it surely gets a wider distribution than a disk in a cardboard sleeve.

Yep. It's (yet another) real grower. I'm really enjoying the quieter tracks now, especially Passing All Signs. Not sure I would have put it between two behemoths like Carmel Calif and Leviathan though.

The mix of "One Night In Space" is a peach to IMHO

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Its just a realy cool TD release IMO

I'd have to say that it was pure solid Gold.

.....that's for all the tadream folks out there.

well this album does grow on you, even the quite tracks , but just to put the cat among the pigeons, i think some of the album sounds like parts of Steve Hillage Green album

...and what's wrong with sounding a bit like Steve Hillage?

Steve Hillage is a legend,sheer class IMHO there are talks of him getting his band back together,i for one will be there to see it

Awesome http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=24NQR8gRqXY

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nothing wrong with Steve Hillage seen him at various concerts in the 80s i believe he is part of System 7

Very True BW......him and his lady Miquette Giraudy have run System 7 since 1991 and still going strong,their newest album "Phoenix" just released.
Pretty awesome live as was Steve in his heyday

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Finally listening to this the whole way through without skipping over more familiar tracks

Bloody marvelous - I've now come to rate this the highest of the 3 latest releases.

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It's the same with me redziller! Red Train has a very high quality, great sounds and marvelous compositions - I can't get enough! It's indeed the best release of the last three. Red Train is very powerfull!

its certain, that V_F_A_R_T is quite addictive, seeing as its a variable collection rather than a piece, its certainly grown on the BM in a big way....its been re evaluated using my new rating system, where Z is 33.3rpm, VFT is 200-500 rpm

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For me Views has two or three great tracks but the rest not that great(INMHO). I much prefer Purple Diluvial which is a corker. In Fact I might have prefered Views more if it had been scaled down and served with another cup of coffee, In Other words been a cup disc release.

PD is a superb Espresso......the instant whack of delight


VeeFRT is more a smooth Latte..creamy and smoooooooooooooth

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