The fifth album from this project from Great Britain.
Alan Parsons did the organs, synths, electronics and vocoder here.
Numerous guests added drums, percussion, bass, mandolin, guitars, harpsichord, piano, harps, organ, keyboards, synths, woodwinds and vocals.
This project returned again after a one-year-long album break.
The Turn Of A Friendly Card clocks in at forty minutes.
The music here is a blend of pomp rock and symphonic prog.
This is actually a concept album with the title track being a suite. It is said that this is the most progressive The Alan Parsons Project album of all time. Listening to this album, I can understand that.
There are a lot of vocals here. There are still some instrumental parts here.
The music is really elegant throughout. The music is still rock instead of the pomp pop music that dominated the previous two albums.
The music is, to my big surprise... and I had given up on this band after the two previous albums... very good. It is by far their best album and one I want to revisit in the coming years.
3.5 points
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