DUKAT I PRIBADAčE

The fourth album saw AERODROM further reduced to a trio (with leader Padjen and bassist Cartagine remaining as the only original members), while the music continued down the slope into a banal and cheap pop.

A notable pop songwriter and leader of NOVI FOSILI ("Yugoslav ABBA") Rajko Dujmic was hired as producer, arranger and keyboardist for this album titled "A Ducat And Pins", and his hand is all over the place, but his pop genius somehow did not apply well to the former rock band, apart from obvious commercial potential of two major hit songs. Almost all rock traces now disappear and we are running into a light-weight entertainment music (schlager) that was highly commercial in Yugoslavia of the period.

Dalmatian-style schlager tickling the theme of south Italian mafioso family falling apart "Fratello" and a nice love ballad "24 sata dnevno" ("24 Hours A Day") were smash hits, but all that remains is unremarkable silly pop with not much inventive and often banal lyrics. It is hard to recommend this album to anyone remotely interested in any style of prog rock. (Personal rating 2,25)