Procol Harum - Broken Barricades
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Artist: Procol HarumEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-08-11
Music Label: SALVO
Soundtracks:
- Simple Sister
- Broken Barricades
- Memorial Drive
- Luskus Delph
- Power Failure
- Song for a Dreamer
- Playmate of the Mouth
- Poor Mohammed
Music reviews of Broken Barricades
Music Review: It Was All Once Bright Jewels
Rating: 5 Stars
Sounding unlike anything Procol that went before or came after, Broken Barricades is Procol Harum at its most uncompromising. Forcing Robin Trower's metallic sound into a sometimes uneasy coexistence with Gary Brooker's more silken measures, its impact is derived from its austerity. If you are new to Procol Harum and come to this album after Edmonton Live or a Whiter Shade of Pale, this one will set you right back in your seat.
Lyricist Keith Reid conjures up a world that is grey, angry and nostalgic. There are two hard-core rockers, 'Simple Sister' and 'Power Failure' which bathe the listener in a bubbling cauldron of sultry sound. These are true collaborations between keyboardist Brooker and guitarist Trower and represent what might have been if Trower and the band not parted ways after this album.
There are Brooker's melodic moments: the wistful title track (one of his finest creations), which opines for an idyllic world gone to rotten hell. Then there's 'Luskus Delph's steaming vat of imagery. (In case you didn't know, the title is an amalgam of 'lust' and 'suck'). If that isn't enough for you, Brooker adds a necrophiliac love song 'Playmate of the Mouth', proving that even as the world collapses, its oldest profession shines on brightly.
Robin Trower's contributions are harbingers of the style developed in his solo career. 'Memorial Drive' and 'Poor Mohammed', sound a bit like clones of each other, with the latter leaving a more lasting impression . He follows with 'Song For a Dreamer', his tribute to Jimi Hendrix, who had departed this world six months before the album was recorded. It sounds slightly out of place, but who can resist that buried vocal suggesting that the 'doctors say we should operate'.
Listeners who don't care for this album see the divergence between Brooker's melodic approach and Trower's increasingly lean, spare style. I admire this album, but also wonder what might have come of a true Brooker\Trower collaboration, but that was not to be. Procol took an extreme foray into their symphonic side, and Trower went on to explore the bridge of sighs.
The sound is throughout is magnificent. BB had always suffered from muddy sonics, instilling an unwarranted feeling of lethargy. BJ Wilson's magnificent drumming, previously resembling the thud of sodden cardboard, now shines with a newly-apparent high end. For the musicologist in all of us, Salvo offers up valuable backing tracks for 'Simple Sister', 'Poor Mohammed' and 'Song For a Dreamer'. The single edit of 'Broken Barricades' doesn't add much, but I love hearing the song again before the disk ends.
Description of Broken Barricades
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the British band's 1971 album including bonus tracks. Stylish packaging includes a 20-page booklet, rare photos and memorabilia plus extensive sleevenotes by Procol expert and respected author Patrick Humphries with contributions from band members. 12 tracks. Salvo. 2009.Classic Rock CDs
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