onsdag 14 augusti 2019

FREE/FIRE AND WATER ILPS 9120 (-70) UK

For more on the band's background check post on their eponymous second album - https://monolover.blogspot.com/2015/09/free-ilps-9104-69-uk.html - or the Black Cat Bones album "Barbed Wire Sandwich" - https://monolover.blogspot.com/2013/07/black-cat-bonesbarbed-wire-sandwich-sdn.html . This was their third, which also became a world-wide breakthrough. It has a lot in common with the not so big-selling second LP in songwriting, style and audio, but comes through a lot more consistent as they finally found their signature chord sequence and now holding on to it with all power they got. So takes on this sounds very much alike - slow and bouncy rock'n'roll, crowned by Paul Rogers excellent vocals and conveyed by tophole audio - with just enough differences between them to separate one from another. I think that made the trick. If the rock fans back then wanted consistency in opposite to the former years acid-drowned experimenting, they sure got it here. Also the million selling "All Right Now" 45, of which you get a longer version on the album, must have worked as an impetus. If to choose I'd prefer the second album for being just a tad bit less uniform, but this works for me too...if in need of a power boost. Issue and reissued on every possible format all over the world through the years. First US on A&M (SP 4268). UK 2008 2xCD Deluxe edition (Island 5306090) came remastered with twentythree bonus tracks. Premiere UK had structured pink label as shown here and thin matt cover. (ÖSÄP*) (FDÄ*)

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