#1162 Supertramp - Crime of the Century

This is a band that doesn't know its limits. Supertramp makes perfectly good ELOesque, twisty, funky prog-lite, but they grasp at Pink Floyd grandiosity and never quite get there, and repeatedly wind themselves up on nothing little underclever phrases.

Worse, musically, its numerous flashes of brilliance, its clever rhythms and melodies, are undermined by nasal, strained, underpowered singing that makes the whole thing dissonant and tense, like watching a child struggle to get out of a pool.

Failing as art, succeeding only occasionally as pop. Awkward 2.5/5