The Kinks Face To Face

摘要

All too often dismissed as a transitional album, Face To Face actually ranks alongside The Kinks' finest releases, and here's why.Convention holds that the band's presiding genius, Ray Davies, reached his songwriting zenith with the 1968 concept offering The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, and that Face To Face was little more than a halfway house between The Kinks' revolutionary rock style (arguably the start of heavy metal) and their more sophisticated, quintessentially English observational pop from the latter half of the decade.