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• Artist: Audience
• Album: The House On The Hill
• Label: Caroline / Blue Plate
• Year of Release: 1971
• ME Rating: Indie Classic
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-29

I had never heard of Audience before I traveled around All Music clicking on “Similar Artists� a few times and seeing their name coming up quite a bit. They kept coming up with reference to prog-rock and art-rock. Not sure if that’s an adequate description of Audience or not but let’s run with it. They were from London, England and formed in 1969 and in 1971 they released their career highlight, The House On The Hill. The album starts off with “Jackdaw� and saxophone intense song that really reminds me of that track in Almost Famous called “Fever Dog�. See what you think. Then comes the groovy “You’re not Smiling�. From what I read though, it was the track called “Indian Summer� that made Audience recognized in the music world. This is a band that was very creative, almost to the point of going over peoples heads. Their music is very accessible today but back in 1971 it probably was cutting edge at the time with the use of saxophones and acoustic guitars. “Raviole� has almost a flamenco feel to it adding even more dynamics to the mix. I was very impressed with this golden nugget from the past.

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