Out Of Reach

Rosko Gee sort of takes over here, singing on several tracks and driving a few tracks with genuinely great bass playing. Also, this is the only Can album to feature Conny Plank? (He mixed this at his studio, but nothing more.) More than a little of this sounds like Byrne and Eno’s My Life In the Bush of Ghosts ahead of the fact. “Seven Days Awake” is a great combination of Jaki’s hollow thunder and chorus bass and soupy guitar. “Give Me No Roses” is one of the few times they lapse into actual muzak, and it’s sort of fascinating. (Who does Rosko Gee think he’s being? Donald Fagen? I really don’t know.) The bedrock playing is here maybe my favorite out of the late Can stuff. A dub album of this one would be fantastic. I also love the opener, “Serpentine,” a bubbler.