Traffic were pea and faggot Mods who became psychedelic popsters and ‘got it together in the country’.
Their career-defining third album, from 1970, is reissued this week with a disc of live tracks and outtakes. Its floaty flute-augmented jazz rock, typical of the period, suddenly seems oddly contemporary, with modern day musicians like Wolf People raking the era for licks.
Every Mother’s Son impresses, with its strangely weightless gravity, but the entirely unrepresentative title track, in which Traffic essayed, briefly and tantalisingly, a fleet English folk rock more fluid and mysterious than Fairport or Pentangle, would do you as a stand-alone download.
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