Face to Face

Kinks, “Face to Face” (Castle; original release, 1966)
Their “Rubber Soul,” i. e., the moment they definitively broke free of their chunky Maximum-Chuck-Berry Britbeat roots and headed toward something more lyrical, free-ranging and strange. But where the Beatles took their audience with them through the looking glass, the Kinks wandered off alone into their own enchanted garden, a skewed vision of an already-half-gone England, a sound-world where everything was wild and overgrown – the ballads hall-of-mirrors spectral, the satires mocking and disoriented, the remaining rockers off-kilter and unhinged. A masterpiece.
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2/21/16