Slik (1976) Don't Take Your Love Away - LOST 70s GEMS

A collection of bubblegum melodies, the type of silly falsetto chorus driven rock of the Sweet with Bay City Roller's lightness in the lyrics and mix of pop and rock. Full of very simple hooks and that calypso rhythm that bubblegum music from the 60s and 70s tended to have a long with a Brian Connolly style drawled croon, pounding piano, upfront acoustic rhythm guitar and deadened tin box drums. There are punchy Moogs and funky scratch guitars for some cutting edge sounds from the mid seventies but is still dominated with playful instrumentals and Osmond Brothers arranged ballads.

Dont Take Your Love Away has that Osmonds/Bay City Rollers mix of terse but rote Glam Rock guitars and bubblegum pop vocals, but the acoustic verses of this track have a heavenly vocal laid on top. Also check out the modal harmonies of Forever and Ever and the ominous Spanish guitar and Moog driven ballad Requiem. While Again My Love has that nice mid 70s Disco sound not heard very often with echo drenched crooning and the kind of dated 70s pastel synthesizer and sweeping string laden disco balladry of tracks like Jigsaw's Sky High.