The Tangent-Songs From The Hard Shoulder

This is their latest release from 2022 actually their 12th studio album. This line-up has been together for the last three or four albums. One side long song on each of the first three sides on this two record set on blue transparent vinyl and with a four page booklet with lyrics and liner notes. Side four has a shorter song and a bonus track of U.K.’s “In The Dead Of Night” lasting 16 minutes with some nice jamming. The first song “The Changes” is rather autobiographical and is pretty good. The second “The GPS Vultures” is largely instrumental and is also good. “The Lady Tied To The Lamp Post” is the weakest song on the record a 20 minute song about homelessness in England. All songs have some good instrumental passages but I think I like their earlier work better. I will have to listen to this some more.

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