Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - Gowan - Strange Animal

Gowan - Strange Animal


#23
January 1985
Gowan
Strange Animal 
3.5 out of 5

Highlights:
Guerilla Solider
(You’re a) Strange Animal


If Russell Mael of Sparks fronted Supertramp it would sound like this record. 
I was thinking to myself how much like Styx this could sound and then I read up and learned that Lawrence Gowan replaces Dennis DeYoung as Styx’s lead singer. 
So that not a surprise. And apparently they play “A Criminal Mind” in concert to this day. It’s okay. There’s better here. 
This is listenable prog-pop but it doesn’t do much to push the envelope. 
A little of Gowan goes a long way. 


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