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This album has some really fantastic moments when it flirts with other genres, like the rising proto-metal opening riff of "Hello Susie", the classically influenced, quasi-Genesis-esque second half of "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited" and the sublime raga rock that overtakes the final few minutes of "Fields of People" (which bears a slight resemblance to the coda of "Baba O'Riley" to my ears). I also like the idea of the little snatches of conversation that punctuate the album, since they give the album a semblance of self-awareness that differentiates it from how most progressive rock bands of this era approached their music. All that said, there's just not quite goodness here for me to consider it a classic - more specifically, there are two real clunkers here in the form of "Beautiful Daughter", which is half as long as the second shortest song here yet somehow feels longer than every other song except the disc's other misfire, the shambling blues of "Don't Make My Baby Blue", which at times sounds like the vocals were imported from a completely different song.

4.0

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