BE BOP DELUXE-AXE VICTIM-

This Quartet from Wakefield West Yorkshire UK, released this their first album in 1974. It was a pretty good critical succés and fairly good sales for this straight forward album, mixing Glam/Prog/Rock on a great produced album.

The album got great songs involving both influences of Bowie, T-Rex and paving the road for NewWave bands to come. The almost perfect interaction between the vocals and guitars lifts this album up several notches and the rhythm section are just having a blast! This is an extraordinary, fun album to spin at the turntable. As there are no song that falls off the wagon, the only grade is to give a big thumbs up!! Terrific album!

Whatabout the drummer, Nicholas Chatterton-Drew?? As everybody by this timeperiod,  would give their left arm for a musical career in the UK, the competition amongs musicians where on a very high level. As is in this case. This is a very good drummer with great striking abilities and a powerful ambience towards the songs. The hitratio together with the splendid Dynamics just leaves you with nothing more to ask for. Technical skills are there, lurkin beneath the well polished Surface and soundframe. This is a like fancy dinner with extra treatment and lapdance for desert as a surprise. All in!! Just fabulous!! :–)

This is a known album in the right circles and yet it is so unfamiliar. Great copies are out there and you should stumble upon this one at your local recordfair. If  the price feel´s right the just push the “purchase” button. Nothing can go wrong with this Classic album that very few people recognize. Very Good!! 🙂

VINYLRATING/GRADE

-7-VERY GOOD!-GAME, SET & MATCH-