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The Great Divide

The eighth studio album, 11 years after Tug of War.
Enchant, 2014

Ott said the band announced nine brand-new tracks, one instrumental. The album has Leonard on vocals and guitar, Ott on guitar, vocals, Mellotron and bass pedals, Jenkins on keyboards, Platt on bass and Flanagan on drums, with Tom Size mixing and Peter Van 't Riet mastering; no studio or recording dates were found. Ott had engineered Enchant records before but not for a long time, was a little worried about getting back on that bike, and once work started it felt like yesterday. The title track's opening riff came from Ott at 17, after listening to Yes's Drama and Steve Howe's high-register chords; he brought it to the band around 1990, they did not respond, and he shelved it, until about 2012 when Platt and Flanegan heard him playing it in the studio. The Prog Report called the album the strongest group of songs since Wounded, Rebel Noise's Jordan Blum gave 4 of 5, and Get Ready to Rock's Jason Ritchie, with 3 stars, wrote that it was good to have them back but did not quite meet his expectations. Our upload is a label promotional interview for the album and not a song, and we could not establish who is interviewed.

Track listing

  1. Circles7:59
  2. Within an Inch7:34
  3. The Great Divide9:05
  4. All Mixed Up4:12
  5. Transparent Man6:20
  6. Life in a Shadow5:00
  7. Deserve to Feel8:01
  8. Here and Now7:33
  9. Prognosticator8:22

More from Enchant

A Blueprint Of The World (1993), Wounded (1996), Time Lost (1997), Break (1998), Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10 (2000), Blink Of An Eye (2002), Tug Of War (2003)

Sources

  1. The Great Divide (Enchant album), Wikipedia
  2. Doug Ott interview, The Prog Report
  3. Enchant, The Great Divide, Rebel Noise (2014-11-03)