Carpenters - Horizon
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Artist: CarpentersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-12-08
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Aurora
- Only Yesterday
- Desperado
- Please Mr. Postman
- I Can Dream, Can't I?
- Solitaire
- Happy
- (I'm Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You
- Love Me for What I Am
- Eventide
Music reviews of Horizon
Music Review: Underrated in 1974, but now one of their best
Rating: 5 Stars
When "Horizon" was released in 1974, it broke the streak of Billboard Top 5 albums that the Carpenters held since the release of "Close to You" in 1970. At the time, people were concerned that they had lost their touch. In reality, they had only just begun to refine it (Pardon the pun).
"Horizon" is easily one of their best works, touching on many different genres, such as country, big band, electronica, new age, and of course, pop. Some of the best songs on this album are the ones that weren't hits:
"Happy" is a woefully underrated song with one of the catchiest hooks I've ever heard from the group. Tony Peluso's contribution was inspired and to this day remains one of the best songs on the album. It's a wonder it was never released, and for that matter, it's surprising that it has never been covered by someone else.
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" was ambitious in using a full Big Band and orchestrations by Billy May to not only replicate but re-create the era it was meant to represent.
"Love Me For Who I Am" gives a searing, sensual vocal by Karen and a blazing guitar solo by Peluso to drill its point harder than I've ever heard from them before.
And the bookends of "Aurora" and "Eventide" create an opening and a closing to an album that tells a beautiful story from start to finish.
"Horizon" was only 10 songs long, but each song played an important role in defining not only who the Carpenters were, but what they could have become. I defy anyone to call it "underrated" now. It's simply one of the best of all time.
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