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Argent

Crossover Prog

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Lupton

Hold your head up woman!

After the uneven if occasionally brilliant Ring Of Hands, Argent enter their imperial phase with the much heavier and more consistent All Together Now album. This was their most commercially successful album ever no doubt helped by the massively successful and much covered opening track "Hold Your Head Up". The album version is nearly twice as long and contains a superb keyboard solo.No two ways about it -this track is a stone cold Classic. "Tragedy" is another excellent rocker with a funky rhythm and another excellent solo."I am the Dance of Ages" with its slow pounding rhythm is another great track absolutely drenched in atmosphere.It is probably the closest thing to pure Prog on the album. Unfortunately side one is let down slightly by the track "Keep On Rolling" which is a basic piano boogie led track.There is nothing wrong with it -it is just that it seems a bit out of place adjacent to "Hold Your Head Up" and "Tragedy" and just goes on too long for such a lightweight number. Side two i a bit of a mixed bag."Be My Lover,Be My Friend" is another classy riff driven rocker."He's a Dynamo" is a bit poppy for my tastes but it is OK.The rest of side two is taken up with the lengthy "Pure Love" suite It starts of with a very lengthy unaccompanied church organ solo followed by a very energetic but all to brief jazzy work out slightly reminiscent of ELP. The third part of the suite is a bluesy song which is quite enjoyable and this lead to a brief reprise of the opening part.It is avery satisfying way to round off the album In retrospect it is easy to see why this album proved so popular. It is a very solid rock album with with some nice prog touches no real filler unless you really do not like boogie woogie.

4 stars

Lupton | 4/5 | 2022-3-17

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