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Curved Air - Second Album: Remastered and Expanded Edition (1971, 2018) FLAC
Artist: Curved Air | Album: Second Album: Remastered and Expanded Edition | Released: 1971, 2018 | Genre: Rock

Time has not treated Curved Air's second album kindly. Of course it was always dominated by "Back Street Luv," which isn't simply one of the band's own finest moments, it's also one of the crucial singles of the early 1970s. But across this straightforward reissue of the accompanying album, the savage innovation which was the hallmark of their Air Conditioning debut, and the brilliant eclecticism which would characterize their next set, is nowhere in sight. Which is weird, because it always used to sound quite good. In its place, a crop of relatively straightforward but sonically flat rock songs are distinguished by Sonja Christina's most conventional, cool vocals yet -- only "Back Street Luv" truly draws any true emotion out of her, while the band's much vaunted classical/rock fusion only shakes its fist during the closing "Piece of Mind," although it must be admitted that when it shakes, it really shakes. A building, foreboding 13-minute epic, crowned by a genuinely spine-tingling recitation from TS Eliot's "The Wasteland," "Piece of Mind" is the kind of performance which you just know was played endlessly in college dorm rooms of the age. The segues from mounting rock to pondering piano seem hopelessly old-fashioned now, the building tension of violin and percussion seems obvious and hackneyed. In 1971, though, Curved Air were pioneers in every sense of the word and it is neither their fault, nor this album's, that we're not so easily impressed any longer. But maybe it isn't time which has treated this album so poorly, but the slipshod manner in which this album has been converted to CD. It sounds lifeless, sludgy, even (in places) a little slow. It has certainly not been remastered; it may not even have used the best quality tapes. Albums this ambitious need loving care and patient attention to cut the aural ice today. This one got neither.


Tracklisting:

01. Curved Air - Young Mother [2018 Remaster] (05:57)
02. Curved Air - Back Street Luv [2018 Remaster] (03:37)
03. Curved Air - Jumbo [2018 Remaster] (04:11)
04. Curved Air - You Know [2018 Remaster] (04:10)
05. Curved Air - Puppets [2018 Remaster] (05:29)
06. Curved Air - Everdance [2018 Remaster] (03:07)
07. Curved Air - Bright Summer's Day '68 [2018 Remaster] (02:54)
08. Curved Air - Piece of Mind [2018 Remaster] (12:58)
09. Curved Air - Young Mother In Style [BBC Radio 1 John Peel 'Top Gear' Session - 5th January 1971] (04:07)
10. Curved Air - It Happened Today [BBC Radio 1 John Peel 'Sunday Concert' - 4th March 1971] (04:53)
11. Curved Air - Blind Man [BBC Radio 1 John Peel 'Sunday Concert' - 4th March 1971] (03:53)
12. Curved Air - Propositions / What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up [BBC Radio 1 John Peel 'Sunday Concert' - 4th March 1971] (06:58)
13. Curved Air - Vivaldi [BBC Radio 1 John Peel 'Sunday Concert' - 4th March 1971] (09:05)
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