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In Camera

In Camera (1974), continues where Silent Corner left off - with brilliant songs like (No More) The Sub-Mariner; The Comet, The Course, The Tail; and Faint-Heart And The Sermon. One of his loveliest ballads can be heard in Again.

The songs are all exceptionally strong, except for the final track, Gog Magog, which starts out promisingly enough, but ends up being overlong with the final 10 minutes being tediously self-indulgent avant-garde nonsense which brings the album down. But there is the initial 35 minutes of top-flight Hammill to recommend it.

In my opinion, In Camera is a flawed masterpiece - and an essential album

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