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Angel | ||||
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Released | October 27, 1975[1] | |||
Recorded | Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 37:08 | |||
Label | Casablanca, Mercury | |||
Producer | Derek Lawrence, Big Jim Sullivan | |||
Angel chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [2] |
Angel is the first album by the rock band Angel. "Tower", the keyboard-heavy opening track,[3] was used widely during the late 1970s and early 1980s by album rock radio stations in the US for various advertising purposes. The track is also on K-SHE radio's Classic List.[4] This album can be seen[by whom?] as representing the band's early progressive roots, with Helluva Band seeing the group starting to move towards an increasingly hard rock-oriented sound. Tracks 6-8 segue to form a 10-minute mini suite.
...the near-seven minutes of Tower ... all swooping synths and roaring Hammond ...