It’s a powerful, if exhausting experience that often leaves one with lingering pain. I know the intense rage-filled fire that turns the coarse sand of experience into the glass of art. I’ve never been an especially big fan of Fleetwood Mac. Nicks has openly admitted that Fleetwood Mac’s best work is in the mire of their darkest personal struggles, and it’s hard to disagree.
For Rumours, the music is the crucible against which the heat of the band’s rage can be vented and refined until it shines. The band wanted to expand on the commercial success of their self-titled 1975 album. Largely recorded in California in 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Glass is created by superheating sand to such a temperature that it melts and shapes. Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. You can feel them aggressively facing the microphones and struggling to keep it together.
You can hear the strain and barely concealed desire to tear each other to pieces in the same room in songs like “The Chain” and “Go Your Own Way” between the obnoxiously catchy hooks, the gyrating synth-bass, and the majestic guitar work. If anything, the richness is only enhanced by this low-key darkness.Īgainst the backdrop of the McVie’s Divorce, Buckingham and Nick’s relationship trouble, and the eponymous Fleetwood’s own marital turmoil, you have to really listen for the fact that these guys are in pain. The sounds, which are so pristine, neat, and saccharine, have none of the raw darkness I usually associate with heartbreak, divorce, and acrimony. It took a distressing number of listens to realize that this album is the product of a band in turmoil. Nicks, McVie and Buckingham have an almost disgusting sense of melody, as if they were dripped in honey.
12-string guitars effortlessly glide like rainbows across sharp sexy electric guitars. This album tastes like chocolate cake by a master chef: Rich, layered, and almost cloyingly in its sweetness.
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