BE-BOP DELUXE

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Sunburst Finish ESOTERIC Canonical Stephen W Tayler remix reissued on vinyl with restored artwork. Generally referenced as the “best” Be-Bop Deluxe album, 1976’s Sunburst Finish is in fact their most solid, their most accessible. In truth, like the minor hit single it yielded, Ships In The Night, it feels a little restrained, with Bill Nelson phlegmatically curbing his more experimental urges to ensure a commercial foothold for the band. tend to lean on legible structures, his guitar solos where guitar solos volatile comets. None of this is to say the record doesn’t frequently dazzle: indeed the attack of Sleep That Burns or the Roxy-ish sigh of Beauty Secrets prog, which characterised their 1974 debut Axe Victim, are held in check, akin to when a politician hides their maverick tendencies to…

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