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Technical Ecstasy [CD]

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Technical Ecstasy, Black Sabbath's 1976 album, comes here on CD: the record where the original lineup pushed hardest against the limits of its own sound.

By the mid seventies the band were worn down by touring and business troubles, and they decamped to Miami to make something different. Tony Iommi took the lead in the studio, adding keyboards and layered guitar parts, and the result is one of the most divisive entries in the Ozzy Osbourne era catalogue. Time has been kind to it: what once sounded like confusion now sounds like curiosity.

Back Street Kids opens with a fast, hard-charging riff that proves the heaviness never left. Dirty Women closes the record with a long, swaggering groove and one of Iommi's great extended solos. In between, It's Alright gives drummer Bill Ward a turn at lead vocal on a warm, Beatles-tinged ballad, and She's Gone is a moody, string-laced lament quite unlike anything else they had recorded.

The famous Hipgnosis cover, two robots meeting on an escalator, suits the music perfectly: mechanical, strange and a little bit romantic.

For Sabbath fans who think they know the seventies records inside out, this one still holds plenty of surprises worth hearing again.

UPC:081227946692

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