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AMMONIA AVENUE

The Alan Parsons Project

 

Crossover Prog

3.00 | 306 ratings

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sgtpepper
2 stars Ammonia Avenue is a pleasant pop album with enough compositional quality from Alan Parson and Eric Woolfson. However, there is hardly any progressive element left even though the studio quality remains top.

Some tracks rock harder than in the 70's and keyboards are not always prominent as they used to be, which is suprising for this period of the 80's. Good pop tracks are "Prime time" and "One good reason". Great sentimental ballads include "Since last goodbye" and "Don't answer me" with its excellent saxophone solo. Another ballad, "Ammonia avenue" is an attempt at grandiose arrangements and the timing at the end of the album fits it. "You don't believe" is fully compliant to the New Wave movement with its electronic drums, bass and textures. The only instrumental track and a pretty average one, is "Pipeline" - it does not bring anything new in comparison to the old better ones. Certainly not one of the best ones from APP in the 80's.

sgtpepper | 2/5 |

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