The Alan Parsons Mission
I Robotic (Tremendous Deluxe Field Set)
Cooking Vinyl
Oct 28, 2025
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For his or her second album, The Alan Parsons Mission additional cemented a key aspect that inspired ongoing curiosity of their albums. The place the conceptual themes of I Robotic had attraction for prog and normal rock listeners, the music was additionally fairly radio pleasant. With hindsight, an album containing songs with a philosophical deal with synthetic intelligence and having a U.S. Prime 40 hit could have appeared unlikely in any yr. Because the album was impressed by creator Isaac Asimov’s Robotic collection, its concepts wouldn’t precisely have been prescient, although such a inventive pursuit appears progressively well timed many years later.
Together with headphone epics like “Nucleus” and “Complete Eclipse,” I Robotic additionally consists of the hit single “I Wouldn’t Need to Be Like You” in addition to “Breakdown,” which additionally discovered appreciable rock radio airplay. Together with the core Mission members, engineer/producer Alan Parsons and songwriter/musician Eric Woolfson, quite a lot of lead vocalists and session musicians got here collectively to wed the ideas with music that ranges from danceable pop/rock to the broader horizons of Pink Floyd-esque tracks and intriguing instrumental items. Out there in varied CD and vinyl codecs for Cooking Vinyl’s reissues, there’s additionally a limited-edition, 4-CD/1 Blu-ray Tremendous Deluxe Field Set that gives the album in a number of mixes, 70 bonus tracks taken from studio session outtakes, and extra. (www.the-alan-parsons-project.com)
Writer score: 7.5/10
