Tracklist

1. Invocation
2. Your Wonderful Parade
3. Someday
4. Get Together
5. All of My Life
6. Turn Away
7. Ticket to Ride
8. Don't Be Afraid
9. What's the Use
10. All I Can Do
11. Eve
12. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
13. Benediction

Thoughts

I love the Carpenters and have been trying to squeeze in one of their albums for a long time, finally their day has come! I went back to the debut, and it was an interesting listen because it's not quite the sound that became so popular. There are a lot of jazzy elements to it, harking back to their previous life as a jazz band, and Richard gets an almost half share of the vocals whereas it later became very much Karen the singer, Richard the musician. But it's still a good listen, and her voice, ooh it melts me.

Rating: 3 / 5