The seventh album from this British band.
Supertramp was a quintet with a lineup of keyboards, harmonica, bass, guitars, drums, saxophones and vocals.
The band had help from string arrangements and three female backing vocalists. Two of them were the Wilson sisters from Heart.
The previous album Breakfast In America gave them a massive hit album. It is one of the more legendary albums from the 1970s. The albums before that again was even better than Breakfast In America.
So, no pressure, then.......
The band is in very good form on the first half of this album with some very typical Supertramp material. That means brash pomp rock with a lot of The Beatles influences. That part of this fifty minutes long album is very good and something I enjoy.
The album goes of the track after that and we get some pretty bad poppy pomp rock after that. Some of it does not even sound like Supertramp. It is meaningless and pretty bad.
The end result is a big red light and warning signs over some parts of this album. I fear the worst on the next album. Nevertheless, this is a good album from a very good band I really like.
3 points
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