D.S. AL CODA

National Health's final album is a tribute to keyboardist: Alan Gowan who dies of lukemia in 1981. So the year after, National Health decided to make a tribute album to him performing all his compositions that he wrote for National Health. Most of these tracks were rehersed & performed live, but never recorded. Though, two tracks featured on this disc where recorded previously with Alan's previous band: Gilgamesh. The album overall is not really up to par like their two previous releases. Portrait of A Shrinking Man is probably the only true stand-out but even that sounds dated with those synthesizers!! The rest falls in to place as if they were bored of the material.If you want a good insight on Gowan's compositions, check out their live release: Play Time.