THIRD - IT'S ALWAYS ROCK'N'ROLL

Their first two albums showed a clear Crimson influence which is hardly to find here. The sound is mostly purely experimental, mechanical, and technical. If you're looking at beautiful synth lines, music from the outer world, amazing and poignant melodies there is only one advice: you'd better pass your way because this album doesn't feature any of these characteristics.

"It's Always Rock 'N' Roll" (what a strange title for such music displayed) is not as minimalist as the "Kraftwerk" debut, but it is not too far either. I am not submerged with joy while listening to this long release. The stereotype could be "Cocaine Blues": a boring and repetitive track of about ten minutes which generates basically no emotion at all. And I need emotions to survive.

The first track that could raised my interest is the first epic "Aurore" (dawn). This is indeed a fine prog electronic track. At least according my concepts which combine some coldness, great atmosphere, aerial keys, some magnificence and last but not least some great harmonies. Some TD filiation at the turn of the second part is probably not alien to my good impression about this song.

The icy "Ocean Boogi" holds some nice mellotron sounds which are quite precursory of the much later Scandinavian scene. A good track indeed.

I wouldn't even take the long running time of this album as an argument: would it be cut by half, I wouldn't have liked it better. Only "Aurore" and "Ocean Boogi" are worth. Two stars.

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