Saga-Heads Or Tales (1983)

The first four albums of Saga are exquisite works of delicate progressive rock, with careful melodies, symphonic arrangements and powerful and crystalline guitar riffs that related them to other contemporary AOR bands and similar styles.
At the beginning of the eighties the band definitively distanced themselves from all of them with their own personality in their album "Worlds Apart", confirming this trend with their next "Heads Or Tales" of 1983.
However, in the latter they do not follow the same line as in that spectacular work that was "Worlds Apart", departing from the epic to fully enter the more accessible progressive pop that was already seen in other bands such as Yes, Genesis or Asia in the eighties.
Saga shows here a perfect sound of synchronization between the keyboards, guitars and the powerful voice of Michael Sadler, with harmonics as brutal as simple as well as fluid as we can hear in "Cat Walk".
The exquisite "The Flyer", the duality of "The Sound Of Strangers" or the progressive "The Vendetta (Still Helpless)" end up curdling an album of magnificent high school progressive pop.