Even in the Quietest Moments… by Supertramp

Even in the Quietest Moments..., Supertramp's fifth album, came out on A&M in April 1977, and it's the sound of the British band's classic five-piece stretching out in the Colorado air. They cut most of it at Caribou Ranch, then finished overdubs, vocals and mixing at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, producing it themselves with a new engineer, Peter Henderson, who would stay on for their next three records.

Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies split the songwriting and the keyboards as ever, with Dougie Thomson on bass, Bob Siebenberg on drums and John Helliwell on saxophone, and the record pulls their prog-rock ambitions toward pop without giving up the grandeur. "Give a Little Bit" was the hit, a bright, open-hearted singalong that went top 20 in the US, while "Fool's Overture" and the title track found plenty of friends on FM album-rock radio. It became their first gold album in America.

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