Al Stewart-Time Passages (1978)

In 1978 Al Stewart came from making an album as mythical as the famous "Year Of The Cat" was released two years before.
Its continuation would be "Time Passages", published in September 1978, which was chronologically the eighth work of the Scotsman and like "Year Of The Cat" was produced by Alan Parsons and obtained great success in the United States and a good worldwide acceptance, although without reaching the levels of quality of its prime work.
However the album manages to be his biggest commercial success and the zenith of his career, from here he will continue publishing good albums without reaching the popularity of these last two works.
"Time Passages" shows a different musical vision regarding "Year Of The Cat", here soft rock takes over almost the entire album, undoubtedly a product of the influence of Alan Parsons, with approaches to pop rock that he had already been doing on his albums with The Alan Parsons Project, translated into an album full of instrumental richness (guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, pedal steel guitar, sax, percussions) at the service of a melodic folk-rock in which elements from pop and jazz and where great songs stand out like the addictive "Time Passages", the space "Life In Dark Water", the progressive "The Palace of Versailles" or the melodic "Song On The Radio".