Eloy-Time To Turn (1982)

"Time to Turn" is the tenth album of Eloy published in 1982 and would be the sequel to the album "Planets" within the concept that unites them, and is the last album that we can consider highly recommended by Eloy. In this work Fritz Randow returns to take care of the battery, after leaving the group in the first time.

This album follows the line of "Planets" in some aspects, but it is a work more infected by sounds of the time. Something that can be seen in the most simplistic and more strictly pop-rock rhythms, taxes on a large part of the themes, or in a notable abandonment of the atmospheres, for the benefit of a more direct sound. The spatial setting, in this case, does not involve the themes entirely, but is shown here in more specific doses, while we can also appreciate some touches that can remind Alan Parsons Project, or a taste for techno-pop sounds, especially in "The Flash."

The album highlights the songs "Through a Somber Galaxy" progressive rock adapted to the 80s, the semi-acoustic "Say is it Really True" and the longest track "End of an Odyssey", which includes an excellent and long instrumental start , dominated by keyboards. But I would even add that the best of "Time to Turn" are the synthesizer solos included in the cited "Through a Somber Galaxy" and "End of an Odyssey", and the one included in "The Flash". All these solos, which seem highly exciting to me, are quite similar to those made by the renewed Hawkwind in "Levitation".