| 词条 | Fourth (Soft Machine album) |
| 释义 |
| name = Fourth | type = Album | artist = Soft Machine | cover = Soft_machine-fourth.jpg | alt = | released = 28 February 1971 | recorded = October–November 1970 at Olympic Studios, London | venue = | studio = | genre =
| length = 39:13 | label = CBS (UK), Columbia (USA) | producer = Soft Machine | prev_title = Third | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = Fifth | next_year = 1972 | misc = {{Extra album cover | cover = | border = | alt = | caption = }} }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [3] |rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide |rev2Score = B[4] }} Fourth is the fourth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1971. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA. OverviewThe numeral "4" is the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out title appears on the spine and label. This was the group's first all-instrumental album, although their previous album Third had almost completed the band's move in this direction toward instrumental jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic pop group, or progressive rock group.[5] It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left. He had already recorded a solo album, The End of an Ear (in which he described himself on the cover as an "Out of work pop singer currently on drums with Soft Machine"), and now founded a new group, Matching Mole, whose name was a pun on "Soft Machine" as pronounced in French: "Machine Molle". Like the previous Soft Machine album, some tracks have the band augmented by additional musicians. These include Mark Charig and Nick Evans, who had been in the septet lineup of late 1969, and Roy Babbington, who would join the band in 1973. In 1999, Soft Machine albums Fourth and Fifth were re-released together on one CD. In 2007, Fourth was re-released as part of the series Soft Machine Remastered – The CBS Years 1970–1973. The booklets of these re-releases contain liner notes written by Mark Powell from Esoteric Recordings about the history of Soft Machine, their musical development and as one of the first relevant bands in the so-called progressive rock scene. Track listingAll compositions by Hugh Hopper except where indicated. Side one
Side two
Personnel
References1. ^http://www.allmusic.com/album/fourth-mw0000645921 {{Soft Machine|state=uncollapsed}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fourth (Album)}}2. ^http://www.allmusic.com/album/fifth-mw0000678891 3. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r18382 |title=Fourth – Soft Machine | AllMusic |first=Ken |last=Taylor |work=allmusic.com |accessdate=25 July 2011}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 5. ^Reviews at Progreviews website 10 : Soft Machine albums|1971 albums|CBS Records albums|Columbia Records albums|Albums produced by Hugh Hopper|Albums produced by Mike Ratledge|Esoteric Recordings albums|Albums produced by Robert Wyatt|Albums produced by Elton Dean|Jazz albums by English artists |
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