Feeling the burden to not only turn out another record but to make it more commercially appealing than the last is never the best place for a group to start from. Yet this was precisely how Gentle Giant felt for most of their 10-year existence. Lacking the luxury of being able to take stock in order to have material and ideas evolve naturally, in this instance, they created a concept album about a subject and situation they knew a lot about, namely themselves.
That gruelling rinse-repeat cycle of touring, promotion and recording probably accounts for the expressions of ambivalence made in the past by band members regarding Interview (or In'terview), Gentle Giant’s eighth studio album. However, several decades on, what really comes across is the truly radical nature of their music’s construction and the extent to which they were prepared to push to the extremes of their range and abilities.
