Rating: 4/5
Review:
Still a good album
Air Conditioning has aged rather well. It came out when I was in the
sixth-form and was staple listening then. Sonja Kristina created
considerable excitement among us teenage boys for reasons which were
not exclusively musical, and after several decades I was interested
to see whether the music itself justified my good memories. On the
whole it does.
The star of this
album for me (nowadays, anyway) is Darryl Way. His musical
excellence and the unusual sound of a violin on a rock album still
make Air Conditioning stand out from the slew of very average stuff
in the early 70s. Tracks like Vivaldi are still a pleasure to listen
to, and the same can be said of most of the album. There’s really
not too much tedious, over-complex, self-congratulatory stuff (the
curse of so many prog rock albums, in my view); it’s largely
enjoyable but grown-up rock which still sounds good almost 50 years
on.
Sometimes it’s a
big mistake to go back, but not this time. This is still a very good
album which I can recommend.
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