TRAFFIC — Last Exit (review)

TRAFFIC — Last Exit album cover Album · 1969 · Jazz Related Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
1.5/5 ·
Sean Trane
(third in a serie of ten)

I am rather severe with this album but, at that time, Traffic's third album was almost posthumous and man, does it ever sound like it. Mason had gone for the second (or is it third) time, leaving the band in total distress with moral forces very low and down to a trio.

Not everything is bad on this album, though: the first side is full of almost usual Traffic tracks in the line of the first two albums (very psychey) but gradually slightly more progressive. Side 2 is two long tracks recorded live with IMO a poor sound and generally over-indulging solos. As to make you know that this was almost throw away stuff and the title tells you that the band was gone.

In such , while relatively poor by Traffic standards , this album is not bad at all , but should only please confirmed fans. Start elsewhere if you want to investigate them.

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