The Swimming Spearhead of Bombast Rock

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today we hear "Suits" by Fish, former singer by Marillion and the man behind hits like "Kayleigh"

While his ex-colleagues from Marillion are once again positioning themselves as the spearhead of bombast rock with their new work, fat Derek W. Dick, alias Fish, is finally turning away from sung worldviews and lives set to music with his fourth solo album.

"Suits", recorded in Fish's own Funny Farm studio, is a pleasantly relaxed record with surprisingly groovy passages - the operatic exaggeration of earlier productions is lost in pieces like the first single "Lady Let It Lie" or the ballad "Fortunes Of Was" in upbeat pop music.

What's also unmistakable, however, is that Fish's voice no longer carries quite as much as it used to and he now has to be a little more economical with his musical ideas, which he crammed half a dozen into a single song with Marillion.

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