ONCE UPON A TIME...Silk Torpedo

 

PRETTY THINGS  Silk Torpedo  (Swan Song,1974) - Rock


      The Things were at a low professional ebb when they made two albums for Led Zeppelin’s Swansong imprint, beginning with this 1974 offering. To their benefactors, artistes of their calibre deserved nothing less than, say, a colliery band and The London Philharmonic’s string section to augment Is It Only Love, one of several highlights on an LP that received middling reviews first time round. 
     While Belfast Cowboys addresses then-topical issues, its impact is undiminished thanks to mainstay Phil May’s lyrical flair as well as multi-layered vocals as breathtaking as any of The Beach Boys’ or The Hollies’ choral intricacies. Moreover, if directed chiefly at North American FM radio (and thus earning a placing in the Billboard chart’s lower reaches), Silk Torpedo is far from bland – as instanced by Atlanta/LANTA during which an acoustic six-string opening leads to an opaque chant buried beneath splattering percussion. 

TRACKLIST : Dream / Joey
                          Maybe You Tried
                          Atalanta
                          LANTA
                          Is It Only Love
                          Come Home Momma
                          Bridge Of God
                          Singapore Silk Torpedo
                          Belfast Cowboys
                          Bruise In The Sky

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