Consumer Guide Album

The Hollies: Hollies [Epic, 1974]
Hollies scholars herald Allan Clarke's homecoming as a return to form, but though the material is their most playful in years--the slyly circular "Love Makes the World Go Round," the slyly hyperbolic "Out on the Road"--the old lightness is gone, probably forever. I mean, soul is soul--at times the sham intensity here is almost baroque. We are not charmed. B−