![]() Glad to see it is being reissued on vinyl for this year’s Record Store Day. Sonic Origami was produced by the legendary Pip Williams, who was also knowledgeable of Heep’s history and talents. The band did however get plenty of mileage out of this album – well more than half of it would feature in the band’s live set for the next year plus, with 8 ending up on the excellent live album “Future Echoes Of The Past”. The hope being that Across The Miles would fetch plenty of radio play for the band in North America, but Journey-type ballads were apparently out of fashion at the time, and it didn’t work as planned, and a massive tour of the US upon the album’s release was pulled at the last moment. This album offered a really mixed bag from rockers like Sweet Pretender, Feels Like, and Everything In Life, poppier gems like Only The Young and Perfect Little Heart, progressive tracks in Change and In The Moment, and a number of ballads, most notably the guitar driven Shelter From The Rain, acoustic tracks Heartless Land & Question, and a cover of Survivor’s Across The Miles. Glad to see it brought back in to the live set on the band’s current tour of North America. The opener “Between Two Worlds” remains the classiest and heaviest Heep track since the early ’70s. ![]() While I loved SOL, it’s follow up would be my favorite, and it remains my favorite album throughout the Bernie Shaw fronted years, largely for the variety and the number of great songs. While many felt Sea of Light was a classic Heep sounding album, and far better and more rocking than the previous few studio albums, Sonic Origami saw the band lightening things up a bit with more acoustic tracks and ballads. That album was the follow up to 1995’s fantastic comeback album “Sea Of LIght”. When Heep’s new album “Living The Dream” is released this fall it will also mark 20 years since the band’s “Sonic Origami” album. ![]()
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