release date: Feb. 1975
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5]
Track highlights: 2. "I'm Not in Love" (4 / 5) - 4. "The Second Sitting for the Last Supper" (2,5 / 5)
3rd studio album by 10cc released on Mercury Records and produced by the band. I think the best thing about the album is the cover art designed by Hypgnosis, an art group that fronted many album covers in the 1970s and especially bands and artists of art pop, experimental, and progressive rock. The music is rather theatrical, but just boring with its fusion of rock opera, jazz elements and tedious arrangements. Yes, the album contains the 1970s great classic "I'm Not in Love", which really only seems misplaced here as no other song on the album comes close to that. Other than that the band was famous for having the composer duo Godley and Cream in its earliest and original line-up. Kevin Godley was the band's percussionist, drummer, (and lead) vocalist and songwriter, and Lol Creme was multi-instrumentalist, (backing) vocalist, and composer, and together they became famous as Godley & Creme, a successful producer- / composer- / video director-duo for lots of artists in the early 1980s. However. the classic track "I'm Not in Love" was written and composed by Etic Stewart and Graham Gouldman - the other two of the band.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
