The Power and the Glory

A concept album about power and corruption, and the source of the Proclamation sample on Travis Scott's Hyaena.
Gentle Giant, 1974

Released
September 1974
Recorded
December 1973 to January 1974, June 1974
Studio
Advision Studios, London
Label
WWA (UK), Capitol (US)
Length
37:11

Recorded at Advision over the turn of 1974, with a title single added that June, it follows a theme of power and its corruption. It moved the band to Capitol in America and reached 78 on the Billboard 200. Steven Wilson remixed it in 2014. Its opener, Proclamation, was sampled by Travis Scott on Hyaena and was the song the surviving members chose for their lockdown video in July 2020.

Track listing

  1. Proclamation6:47
  2. So Sincere3:51
  3. Aspirations4:40
  4. Playing the Game6:46
  5. Cogs in Cogs3:07
  6. No God's a Man4:27
  7. The Face4:12
  8. Valedictory3:21

More from Gentle Giant

Octopus (1972), In a Glass House (1973)

Sources

  1. The Power and the Glory (Gentle Giant album), Wikipedia
  2. Gentle Giant and Perpetual Motion Music, LBB Online
  3. Gentle Giant, Wikipedia