Victims of the Fury by Robin Trower

Victims of the Fury, Robin Trower's 1980 album for Chrysalis, was the last stand for his classic trio, with James Dewar and Bill Lordan alongside him. It also brought back an old partner: the former Procol Harum guitarist wrote again with that band's lyricist Keith Reid, nine years after their last collaboration, and the Beatles' old engineer Geoff Emerick handled the sound.

Coming after Caravan to Midnight, it finds Trower still firmly in his element, that thick, bluesy, Hendrix-haunted tone wailing and curling over a rhythm section that knows exactly when to push, and the title track is the one that made the countdowns. It reached No. 34 on the Billboard 200, but the lineup didn't make it past this record, and the decade ahead would prove tougher for him. B.L.T. came next.

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