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Curved Air

Eclectic Prog

3.38 | 218 ratings

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Evolver
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Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams

I have the LP of this, but luckily not the pcture disc, so my record is still playable. Thankfully.

This album falls somewhere between folk rock and symphonic prog, and, for a debut album, is pretty good. The album begins with the more rocky (for this band) It Happened Today, and then proceeds to get folky for a while, peaking with the quirky Blind Man. I don't usually go for this type of song, but for some unknown reason, this one always grabs my attention. The side closes with darryl way's bombastic Vivaldi, a song he must like, since they recorded it so often.

Hide And Seek starts the second side with some classic psychedelia. Propositions is a Francis Monkman guitar fest, one of the few times his guitar wins over Way's violin. Rob One is a slow instrumental ballad, and therefore not my type of song, but it does have it's charm. Situations is a song of changing dynamics, and very good, probably the most prog on the album. Then there's another Vivaldi.

A good start, but in my opinion, this band got better in the next few years.

Evolver | 3/5 | 2010-9-13

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