LAST

This one is very different but somewhat the logical follower of Second but reversely so. Here the electronics predominate the electric and acoustic music. It was recorded partly live in 74 and partly in spring 73 from a radio broadcast and parts from a successful French tour the next year with yet another guitarist (Dietz replaced by Lutjens), but only released in France in 76 with a gloomy post nuke artwork.

If the first side is made up of two tracks, they don't make for an easy adaptation of AF's evolution since their second album. Gone is the warm pastoral sound of Second or the torrid cosmic feel of Malesh. We are left with a glacial music, sometimes not very well recorded The flipside is filled by a sidelong comp Looping IV, which is relatively eventless. as this is mostly electronic layers and sounds evolving and leading to some delightful music that AF had gotten us used to in their first two.

This is a definite tougher listen but still worth a spin, but you'll find that it never gets fully tamed, but in time, you should warm up to it. .