content: Both these albums, Gracious' complete distography as far as I know, are great. They both contain either side long suites--that work--or songs with many parts. The writting is non-lineier throughout.The music contains lots of instrumentation: harpichords, alarm bells, heavy guitar, and heaps of mellotron. The mellotron is particually emphasized, but not to orchestrate the way the Moody Blues or early King Crimson used the insrtrument. Gracious uses its merky, primative sound-primative by today's standards-to create dark, frighening undertones. The tron is present a great deal. but it is deep within the music, which actually makes it more effective.The songs jar from an almost Bach like gracefullness to abrupt bursts of noise and dissonent hard rock. Suprises abound, and Gracious never falls into prog-cleches'Violent, unpredictable and origonal, this is a band you definately want to hear. I have not listened to anything quite like it.