Gentle Giant - Octopus
SKU
28-COLUMBIA32022
New, amazingly low list price for a great work. The band's fourth album, and for me this was their first really incredible work. This was the last by the six piece band and their first with drummer John Weathers, who became a very important part of their sound. It also seems to me that this was the album where they took their 'rock' background, their mastery of the studio and their mastery of their instruments and voices and mixed them together in a very natural way (Acquiring The Taste trod similar ground in a lot of ways, but it didn't seem like it was able to roll off their backs in such a natural way as it did here). Eight tracks, and every one of them pretty much perfect. This was the first album I heard by them and it pretty much knocked my lights out then and still does, actually. Highly recommended.