Average White Band

The difference in quality between AWB's excellent first Atlantic album, which boasted
almost uniformly strong tunes, and the slick filler that passes for songs on Cut the Cake,
their last record, and Soul Searching, their new one, is dismaying. Like Cut the Cake, Soul
Searching is competently arranged and aurally polished, thanks to producer Arif Mardin,
but it consists almost entirely of arrangements in search of themes. Although the... More >