7/24/2023 0 Comments Boston debut album![]() This highly touted New England group more than lives up to its billing as being able to rock in heaviest metal style while remaining warm and fluid. Still, in a period when imaginative rock-and-roll hit singles are getting harder to find than practicing Druids, it's nice they're around. There isn't another song remotely as memorable anywhere on the rest of the album, and, unsurprisingly, the group's singing is as faceless as all the rest of the metal bands'. But, like most left-field smashes, it's a one-shot. Todd Rundgren, not to mention Eric Carmen, must be reaching for the razor blade every time he hears it. It really is good: a soaring riff out of Lou Reed by way of Joe Walsh, stunning playing and production, and the best job of adapting the George Martin/Beatles approach to heavy metal that anyone has come up with in ages. "More Than a Feeling," of course, has been the left-field smash of the year, coming seemingly out of nowhere from a first album by an unknown group of musicians who have quit their day jobs. ![]() Kris Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 10-7-76. If Boston is as exciting to see as it is to hear, Aerosmith will soon have company at the top. ![]() He teams with guitarist Tom Scholz, who coproduced and wrote six of the album's eight songs, in a relationship that's the key to the group's striking personality. Lead singer Bradley Delp's muscular vocals are powerful and graceful. But that's merely a point of reference - Boston surfaces from the melting pot as a refreshingly original band. "Foreplay/Long Time," for instance, is a perfect marriage of Led Zeppelin and Yes that plays musical chairs with electric and acoustic sounds. The group's affinity for heavy rock & roll provides a sense of dynamics that coheres magnetically with sophisticated progressive structures. Boston is a five-man band that embodies the finest influences of English heavy-metal and progressive rock as no other American band has ever done.
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