Not exactly rock, Third nonetheless pushed the boundaries of rock into areas previously unexplored, and it managed to do so without sounding self-indulgent.
Soft Machine's Third is completely worth the cult status it receives up until this very day. It is a mammoth of an album consisting of four lenghty tracks that show the legendary band in its hayday - Robert Wyatt as the main composer (and vocalist on the more stripped down "Moon in June"), playing everything from drums to piano, organ and bass on a few tracks), Hugh Hopper with his fantastic, breathing basslines on the more jazz/rock-oriented cuts ("Slightly all the Time") ... read more
Absolutely amazing, such a mind exploding journey with some of the most interesting and complex passages to even comes out of the Canterbury Scene and the technical display is insane and although the songs are quite long they never lose any engagement and keep such an hypnotic and mysterious atmosphere to create one of the biggest cult albums out there and for good reason because Third is completely amazing.
Track Review
Facelift 8.5/10.
Slightly All The Time 10/10
Moon In June ... read more
cracked this thing on while trying to write a paper and it DID NOT HELP . so ingenious, eerie, fascinating, impressive .
fav: out-bloody-rageous
1 | Facelift 18:54 | 87 |
2 | Slightly All the Time 18:14 | 91 |
3 | Moon in June 19:18 | 91 |
4 | Out-Bloody-Rageous 19:17 | 92 |