Family
It's Only A Movie

What can I tell you, surely this album is nothing revolutionary, nothing to do with "Fearless" or "music in a dolls house", it has absolutely not marked an era, it is the tired signal of the end of the Family, it has nothing to do with the acoustic atmospheres of English folk that have always distinguished the group....

But the music produced in this long playing sounds wonderful to my ears!

First of all, the first element that surprises in this album (positively or negatively, depending on the point of view) is the change in Chappo's voice, used to his angular bleating vocal cords you find yourself faced with a new warm Country-like voice! The band's performance is certainly not memorable, yet towering above all is the legendary Tony Ashton on the piano.

The best song on the album is undoubtedly "Leroy Buffet", with an atmosphere of an unlikely English saloon, complete with violins marking the evocative diminished chords. This track gives me beautiful sensations despite being nothing revolutionary, I would love to know what effect it has on you...
I also highlight "Sweet Desiree", although a bit repetitive, the brass and the ramshackle drunken choirs are absolutely irresistible and give it that party atmosphere typical of Ashton, "Boots'n Roots" with excellent brass orchestration and a grand and as always whimsical Tony Ashton at the Piano, and finally "Suspicion" with a great vocal interpretation (Eh eh dear Bon Scott... you liked Chappo, huh?!).

Mine is certainly a biased judgment, I adore the rockblues genre along the lines of David Coverdale's Northwind so this album can only please me even if objectively I give it 3 stars out of 5 even if it does not deserve less than the previous album which turns out to be just tired and that's it.