Argent - Circus (1975)

Argent's 1973 LP 'In Deep' saw much abuse on my turntable as it had three of my all-time favourite songs — 'God Gave Rock and Roll to You' and both parts of 'It's Only Money'. I also couldn't get enough of Rod Argent's Hammond organ work.

Although Moog, Mellotron, Rhodes and acoustic piano take precedence over the Hammond on many of the tracks, 'Circus' marks the band's proggiest and least predictable phase. Loads of jazz-inflected passages and dizzying solos make this the kind of mind-bending album hard-case progheads would dig to death.