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The Cry

A mini-album of reworked and new versions from the Crying for Help cycle, John Mitchell's first recording with the band.
Arena, 1997

Verglas Music issued it in the UK as VGCD005, and MusicBrainz dates it April 14, 1997, though another source gives a different date in May. The liner notes, as quoted on ProgArchives, describe a theme and variations featuring original and new versions of the Crying for Help pieces. John Mitchell replaced Keith More in 1997, and a fan comment on Heavy Harmonies says this was his first recorded work with the band. The line-up is Paul Wrightson on vocals, Mitchell on guitar, John Jowitt on bass and Clive Nolan on keyboards, with Mick Pointer on drums, and Steve Rothery of Marillion guests on "Only Child"; Nolan produced and engineered. One new song, "The Healer", closes it.

ProgArchives reviewers gave it three stars as a very enjoyable and accessible mini-album and two stars as not typical for Arena.

Track listing

  1. Theme0:56
  2. The Cry3:10
  3. The Offering2:33
  4. Problem Line4:02
  5. Isolation1:59
  6. Fallen Idols4:12
  7. Guidance5:09
  8. Only Child5:03
  9. Stolen Promise2:58
  10. The Healer5:45

More from Arena

Songs from the Lion's Cage (1995), Songs From The Lions Cage (1995), Pride (1996), The Visitor (1998), Welcome To The Stage (1998), Immortal? (2000), Breakfast In Biarritz (2001), Contagion (2003), Radiance (2003), Pepper's Ghost (2005), The Seventh Degree of Separation (2011), The Unquiet Sky (2015), XX (2016), Double Vision (2018), The Theory of Molecular Inheritance (2022)

Sources

  1. The Cry, Arena, MusicBrainz
  2. Arena (band), Wikipedia