Moody Blues
Seventh Sojourn - Threshold 1972
Tracks: 1. Lost In A Lost World / 2. New Horizons / 3. For My Lady / 4. Isn't Life Strange / 5. You And Me / 6. The Land Of Make-Believe / 7. When You're A Free Man / 8. I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)
Comments:
"Seventh Sojourn" from 1972 was the last album Moody Blues released before the group chose to take an extended break and only in 1978 released the successor "Octave", the last album with the classic line-up.
Although "Seventh Sojourn" was a great commercial success, I sense some fatigue; partly in some of the songs which appear to be somewhat constructed and partly to a certain disillusionment in the lyrics.
John Lodge was behind the two singles selected from the album this time; both managed well in the charts. "Isn't Life Strange" is fine ballad, and in my opinion the album's most successful track; while "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock'n'Roll Band" is a rather banal and rather typical Moody Blues soft rocker.
There is fine melodic lines in Justin Haywards' two ballads "New Horizons" and "The Land of Make-Believe", but overall I don't feel they are quite fulfilled/successful.
The rest is the album could probably be labelled ”solid”, but also somewhat uninspired and never really interesting.
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