Dire Straits-Love Over Gold (1982)

After three splendid albums which put Dire Straits on the world rock map, the group began to become the band to show off their guitarist Mark Knopfler.
In 1982 Knopfler himself had been commissioned to compose the soundtrack for the movie "Local Hero", while he was already preparing the group's new work, something that contributed to increasing his popularity.
The rest of the band saw that their specific weight when composing was less and less and even Knopfler himself would include new components in the new album tailored to their needs.
Only this "Love Over Gold" is understood, songs like "Telegraph Road", are a marathon exercise of 14 minutes to clearly show off the six strings of its leader.
The album itself is excellent in quality, with a calm and atmospheric tone, with an approach to progressive rock, without fully entering this subgenre, it has passages that bring it closer to notoriety.
Apart from the progressive "Telegraph Road", here we have the melancholic "Private Investigations", the soft "Love Over Gold", the quiet "It never Rains" or the rock and more animated of the "Industrial Disease" album.