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With the departure of guitarist Jeremy Spencer and the addition of Christine McVie and Bob Welch, Future Games began the transition from a blues to a jazz-pop band. Interestingly, the album opens with the mysterious, restrained folk-jazz "Woman of 1000 Years" by Danny Kirwan, followed by Christine McVie's "Morning Rain"****, which mildly rocks at a Crosby Stills Nash level, but also suggests at the contributions that she would make to the band's era of super-stardom. Bob Welch makes his first contribution a big one, the epic title track*****, whose breathy vocals, intricate layers of guitar, and deliberate pacing are much closer to mid-70's Pink Floyd than the band that would bring us "Go Your Own Way." But being the established member, Kirwan contributes the most tracks (3 total), the CSN-like "Sands Of Time" and "Sometimes"****, the latter with some poppy touches and some very Clapton leads. Welch's other contribution, "Lay It All Down" is a simple blues boogie with a similarly simple sentiment, while McVie's is "Show Me a Smile", a nice ballad the closes the album.
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