Tangerine Dream ‎– Cyclone

I always felt that Cylone has an undeserved bad reputation. At this time, Peter Baumann was gone, to release a couple of solo albums in the early '80s, Trans-Harmonic Nights (1979, actually, although close enough to the 1980s) and Repeat Repeat in 1981, and then starting up Private Music (in which his former band Tangerine Dream ended up signed to). Steve Jolliffe and drummer Klaus Krieger came in. Jolliffe was apparently in a very early Tangerine Dream incarnation around 1968, before jumping ship for Steamhammer, a British blues-rock band. He provides wind instruments as well as vocals. It's the vocals that so many people really dislike of this album. But if the results mean the band moved more towards prog rock, to me that's nothing to complain about! "Bent Cold Sidewalk" is prime example what I'm talking about. It sounds like late '70s prog rock, but the piece does also feature their trademark use of sequencers to let you know what band you're listening to. "Rising Runner Missed by Endless Sender" is a more upbeat number, with nice spacy synths and vocals, once again. "Madrigal Meridian" is the only all-instrumental piece, and features a lot of Klaus Krieger's drumming. While his drumming might sound like it's on autopilot for most of the time, at least the nice synth rhythms more than make up for it. Just give it a try, you might end up surprised.