release date: Sep. 20, 1982
format: vinyl (6359 109) / cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,56]
producer: Mark Knopfler
label: Vertigo Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Telegraph Road" (4 / 5) - 2. "Private Investigations" - 3. "Industrial Disease" - 4. "Love Over Gold" - 5. "It Never Rains"
4th studio album by Dire Straits. The new broader style initiated on Making Movies (Oct. 1980) is continued with the addition of more jazz rock and progressive compositions. Before making recordings for the album, two new members joined the band, Hal Lindes on guitar and Alan Clark on keyboards, and especially the latter is probably responsible for the keyboard and piano dominance on this album. My initial thoughts were bland and I thought of the album as too slow and soft but basically it's a rather strong but also the band's most progressive rock-styled album with almost no tracks below 6 minutes playing time and with the longest lasting single-track exceeding 14 minutes running time.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
