While I like "Echoes" well enough, I'm not one of those who finds it their best-ever track or anything, and I actually enjoy a couple of other Breathless songs over that one. As said, I think it was a rather successful attempt at doing something altogether rather different - a kind of "poppy Canterbury" thing. A piece like "The Sleeper" even sounds like a leftover Hatfield track at times - which "Down On the Farm" apparently even was.
But Bill, did you hear any of the last three studio records Camel released? To my ears, the final one especially (A Nod and a Wink) arguably contained their finest moments since the good parts of Breathless.
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