release date: Nov. 1974
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,29]
producer: Ken Scott, Supertramp
label: A&M Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Bloody Well Right" - 4. "Asylum" - 5. "Dreamer" (4 / 5) (live) - 8. "Crime of the Century"
3rd studio album by Supertramp. The album is the first to be co-produced by Ken Scott. It's also known as the band's breakthrough album. Musically, it's no longer a fusion of various styles with single tracks having various inspirational sources, so one track may be inspired by this and another by something completely different. The band obviously still has taken inspiration from many sources, which gave them an undefinable sound on the two previous albums, but here, Scott and the band keeps things together and pins out a style of their own with equal parts of r&b, jazz rock and progressive rock, resulting in art rock and soft rock. The album is enlisted in many best-of-lists compiling the best pop / rock albums of all time. It's the only Supertramp album to figure in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com, Sputnikmusic 4 / 5 stars ]
