#26
January 1985
Little River Band
Playing to Win
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Playing to Win
When Cathedrals Were White
I always think LRB is a country rock band because their name screams that. But, they aren’t, are they? Certainly not here, where each subsequent track sounds like they listened to Styx’s Kilgore and a LOT of latter day Yes and then, in a fever sweat, got in the studio.
This isn’t hard to do but…this is better than The Net.
There might be something wrong with me cuz, I actually like this album. They’ve abandoned their worst tendencies (that abysmal photo-funk of the last album) and moved heavily into Prog and, for me it works. In a way, songs like “Piece of the Dream” give a good indication of what prog would sound like in Billy Joel’s hands.
Make of that what you will.
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