The band's forth LP and, as their other full-lengthers, offering a very nice blend of progressive and melodic. When I see it handeled by fans and medias today it's mostly the hit "God Gave Rock'n'Roll To You" that's mentioned while the rest is treated scantly and the whole album as some kind of low point. Listening now I'm far from any such perception. Always had a hard time to espouse "rock-about-rock" songs , so common in the seventies. To me those showed on a growing distance to the genre - instead of being there and living it, rock was treated from the outside like a commodity. So not getting in to that, but the rest is right up my alley. Favorites - "Be Glad" is beautiful, combining melodic and catchy with adventurous twists and turns. Lots of good piano there. "Christmas For The Free" and "Losing Hold" very touching ballads, deserving to be loved. Those cuts are the ones that to me make this a fine album and a keeper for sure. Maybe not Argent's best, but in a larger perspective good enough. Issued and reissued all over the world on vinyl and CD through the years, also cassette and 8-track. First US on Epic (KE 32195). Seems a couple of the premiere UK copies had orange label as shown here (mispress?), the rest on yellow. All came in the same glossy fold/out cover. (ZÖZ*)
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