Last year Big Big Train released their 15tth studio album called The Likes Of Us (2024, see review) and a year later we are treated to a double live album called Are We Nearly There Yet?. BBT surely is one of the best actual British prog rock bands of the music scene and this live album is a wonderful registration, featuring fourteen tracks, indeed! The first CD, called The Lives Of Us, offers seven tracks from Big Big Train's last album The Likes Of Us, of which Light Left In The Sky, Oblivion and Last Eleven are the immaculate highlights. CD two, titled The Lives Of Others, features classic BBT songs like The First Rebreather from the album English Electric Part One (2012), the epic A Mead Hall In Winter from Grimspound (2017, see review) and the intricate instrumental Apollo from Common Ground (2021, see review). These excellent songs feature those familiar musicals, recognisable trademarks of BBT. The band sounds super tight, compact, and fresh and Are We Nearly There Yet? is a more than excellent representation of Big Big Train in the flesh; play it LOUD and enjoy. **** Martien Koolen (edited by Tracy van Os van den Abeelen) Where to buy? |
