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Seventh House

IQ 形式: CD
4.7 5つ星のうち4.7 118個の評価
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曲目リスト

1 The Wrong Side Of Weird
2 Erosion
3 The Seventh House
4 Zero Hour
5 Shooting Angels
6 Guiding Light

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With a career that spans nearly 25 years, IQ remain one of the biggest names in the world of Progressive Rock. Getting their start in Southhampton, England back in 1981, IQ was often compared to two other great Prog bands from the UK: Marillion and Genesis. For years the band struggled to create their own identity and they did so by outlasting the glory days of Fish’s Marillion and Gabriel’s Genesis. Here again is IQ with their classic line-up of Peter Nicholls, Martin Orford, Mike Holmes, John Jowitt and Paul Cook.

The Seventh House begins melodically, lulling the listener into a dreamlike state before the notes are transformed into pumping progressive rock rhythms with strange, grumbling bass lines. IQ are masters of the soft tones, conveying their content differently than their heavier colleagues but always carefully crafted, progressively arranged and with equal intensity.

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With a career that spans nearly 25 years, IQ remain one of the biggest names in the world of Progressive Rock. Getting their start in Southhampton, England back in 1981, IQ was often compared to two other great Prog bands from the UK: Marillion and Genesis. For years the band struggled to create their own identity and they did so by outlasting the glory days of Fish痴 Marillion and Gabriel痴 Genesis. Here again is IQ with their classic line-up of Peter Nicholls, Martin Orford, Mike Holmes, John Jowitt and Paul Cook.

The Seventh House begins melodically, lulling the listener into a dreamlike state before the notes are transformed into pumping progressive rock rhythms with strange, grumbling bass lines. IQ are masters of the soft tones, conveying their content differently than their heavier colleagues but always carefully crafted, progressively arranged and with equal intensity.

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  • 製品サイズ ‏ : ‎ 14.22 x 10.16 x 1.14 cm; 90.72 g
  • メーカー ‏ : ‎ Inside Out U.S.
  • EAN ‏ : ‎ 0693723414423
  • レーベル ‏ : ‎ Inside Out U.S.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007R8FGW
  • ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.7 5つ星のうち4.7 118個の評価

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5つ星のうち5.0 IQ節満載の傑作アルバム
2010年3月17日に日本でレビュー済み
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80年代初頭ネオプログレムーブメント時にデビューし
一貫してわかり易いメロディー、ドラマティックな構成美で
シーンを代表する英国出身シンフォプログレバンドIQの2000年作。

前作は2枚組のコンセプト大作でしたが今作は独立した6曲の作品です。
全体的にドラマティックな構成でフックな印象が強い作品です。
VoのP・ニコルズ（声質からポップ調なイメージの誤解があるが・・）も
淡々と歌い上げてます。
中でも12分台のの1曲目のイントロ部、ベースペダル、M・オフォードのキラキラシンセ、
M・ホームズの壮大なGソロ！
14分の3曲目の優美なメロディーライン、9分台の6曲目のスリリングな展開美は
すばらしいの一言に尽きます。

IQは2004年に”Dark Matter"そして昨年”Frequency"という
今作を上回る作品をリリースしてますがこの”The　Seventh House”は
この時点での最高傑作だと思います。
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緑川 とうせい
5つ星のうち4.0 英国シンフォニックのベテラン
2010年3月23日に日本でレビュー済み
イギリスのシンフォニック・ロックバンド、アイキューの2001年作
80年代から活動する大ベテラン。GENESISクローンと揶揄された初期の作風から、
1993年の復活後にはドラマティックなシンフォニック性を強め、1997年の大作「SUBTERRANEA」で、
ひとつの結実をみる。本作はその流れを組ながらも、曲ごとのキャッチーなメロディアスさが際立ち、
アルバムとしての聴きやすさではむしろ上回っている。核となるのはピーター・ニコルズの歌唱と
マーティン・オーフォードの華麗なシンセワークで、繊細かつ叙情的な美しさが胸をうつ。
PENDRAGON、PALLASらとともに英国シンフォニックのベテランたるにふさわしい完成度だ。
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Diehl, Johannes
5つ星のうち5.0 Puh!!
2021年9月18日にドイツでレビュー済み
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Was für ein geniales Klangwerk… obwohl es sich hier sicherlich um ein typisches I.Q. Album handelt, ist es dennoch eigenständig in der musikalischen Auslegung… sehr beeindruckend.
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Prog Is Not Dead
5つ星のうち4.0 Hidden Gem
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The problem with 'The Seventh House' is that it sits in the middle of a trilogy of amazing albums (Dark Matter, The Road of Bones and Frequency) and tends to be compared with any one of them which is a little unfair as it stands by it own merits, even should it be obscured by the aforementioned trilogy.
Not a single bad track with the real standouts being ' The wrong side of weird', 'Guiding Light' and the title track. Given that they comprise half the album that's pretty amazing in itself. The other three tracks are not lacking either and IQ can take a collective bow for producing another prog - if hidden - gem.
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spigomars
5つ星のうち5.0 While this is not exactly New it is very relative. The music rocks just like the year 2000 was yesterday
2015年8月1日にカナダでレビュー済み
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IQ can be one of those Hot & Cold Bands, you are never quite sure what group is going to show up, the tight, Hard rocking band that you fell in love with when you bought the first one of their discs, OR the weak, milk toast,kinda sleepy just waking up hardly worth listening to kinda band that you can get every now and then. In the beginning of this disc The second option is what I thought I had received ( milk toast, etc.) but slowly as I was entering the data into the computer regarding the disc something miraculous happened a transformation took place...Hey Presto, Abra Cadabra, and some other Steve Miller Magic words spoken over my P.C and I found myself listening to the disc more than actually writing the review. The Music had become entrancing. I loved it, again I highly recommend this disc to those who are interested in the New form of Prog Rock. This disc dates back to the Year 2000 so this is already 15 years old, amazing to me. The Millennium seems to me to be just yesterday but kids born that year are now hormonally challenged teens right now...Spigomars
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Alessandro
5つ星のうち4.0 Richiede un ascolto attento
2014年11月6日にイタリアでレビュー済み
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Non è il migliore degli IQ ma sicuramente si fa ascoltare con piacere. Per apprezzarlo bisogna farlo girare molte volte...
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Ryle Shermatz
5つ星のうち5.0 5 Stars are NOT ENOUGH!
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I'm amazed to see that only three fans roused themselves to review IQ's "Seventh House," and two reviews were lackluster. Given this outrageously poor showing I must leap to the defense of what in my opinion is one of the BEST all-round progressive rock bands (and albums) EVER.

IQ had been together and mostly intact personnel wise for maybe 20 years by the time they issued "Seventh House," so we are not dealing with flash-in-the pan amateurs here. To my ears this album is a pinnacle for them in a LONG career with some extraordinary highlights. It all comes together here--intelligent, meaningful lyrics with substantial depth and the STELLAR musicianship & songwriting these guys have long distinguished themselves by.

Every track has something rewarding to offer, but I'll confine my praise to the twin "tent-pole" tracks of this set, the titular track 3, "The Seventh House" and the sledgehammer closer, "Guiding Light." Both are in the grand tradition of progressive rock, big, long 10 minute plus statement tracks that once again re-establish IQ's bonafides as a creative force EASILY in the same rank as their big-time predecessors, Genesis, ELP, Pink Floyd, etc. Had IQ been recording during prog's brief commercial heyday, I have no doubt they would have vaulted to the same prominence as these heavyweights. Given IQ's limited commercial success, I think it's safe to conclude that only their passion for what they're doing keeps them in the game up to now.

-And lucky for us that they feel that way, because "The Seventh House" and "Guiding Light" are no less than masterpieces to my ears, Major Statement tracks that many bands can NEVER equal, but are tossed off with almost casual ease by a group of pros at the absolute top of their game. Thematically "The Seventh House" strikes me as singer Peter Nichol's attempt to surpass lyrically the folly-of-war theme struck so resonantly by his short-term replacement in the band Paul Menel on "Nomzamo" in that CD's closing track, "Common Ground." "Common Ground" is another classic, and I do not at all belittle it by praising both Nichols' ambition in trying to top it and my own perception of his success in that endeavor. I can't definitively interpret the lyrics, but clearly Nichols is aiming higher than Paul did on "Common Ground;" "Seventh House" considers not only the horror of the conflict but also its spiritual implications, not in a dogmatic sectarian sense, but in the elemental, "BIG" questions we all abandon because they're apparently unanswerable. How many musicians will even attempt such a thing anymore? Sample lyric: "For all their tomorrows, we gave our last todays." Brilliant! Brilliant!

No internet quickie review could possibly do "Guiding Light" justice. Here we have perhaps the ultimate closing track of all time, a both poignant and rousing examination of humanity, our interactions and somehow HOPE that can transcend the cycling of our human lives. A theme from "Seventh House" is reprised with spine-tingling power, and the track closes with the same beautiful piano/voice verse that opened, "I have always believed that somewhere in your heart, there's a guiding light still shines..."

Praise for the lyrical flights of Peter Nichol should not eclipse the AWE in which I hold the entire band. As composers and musicians, all of IQ is VERY well put together. I commend drummer & bassist Paul Cook/John Jowitt as a rythym section that can play some outrageously complex stuff with OUTSTANDING authority and dexterity. But I especially want to call your attention to the criminally overlooked guitarist Mike Holmes who wrenches some INCREDIBLY expressive howling leads from his Stratocaster during the big build-up section of "The Seventh House." Keyboardist Martin Orford is no less adept--pay special attention to his laser beam solo weaving through your brain in the midsection of "Seventh House" (after Peter's vocal, "I alone remained, no other soul was saved!"). I say this is luminous GENIUS of the highest order!

Nothing I can write can fully do "The Seventh House" justice. You simply need to hear it for yourself. IQ is a band which has for the most part toiled in obscurity, and when recognized at all has all too often been slagged by pygmies as "neo-progs" or "Genesis rip-offs." Artistry of this caliber deserves better. In all meaningful ways, I think IQ is a band that still hasn't found its audience; I encourage you as strongly as this forum will allow to give this recording (and band) a chance.
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