Tuesday 21 March 2017

Hall and Oates (1974) Youre Much Too Soon

 A breezy song on a heavy album, the infamous Hall and Oates War Babies album. The third album was the final nail in their deal with Atlantic Records it was too dominated by Prog soundscapes full of an array of early synthesizers and electronic sounds like wirring wails, bomb shelter sirens and sharp bursts of noise. It also caught them at the height of their glam rock style, displaying some half speaking deliveries

The song displays their old school soulful tones but is full of sunny, bright blues licks that compliment their thin, undulating falsettos. If some of the experiments don't work this is a largely salvageable effort from an album tough on accessibility; concept album about technology and the life of a performer. It mixes a lot of Producer Todd Rundgrens ideas into the pot that he would use on his band Utopia including prog transitions like signals and rapid genre and tempo shifts. It also boasts a unique mix of glassy synthsizers, thin and funky guitars, radio transmissions and kettle whistle audio signals


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