condition (record/cover): EX / VG (cut-out corner)

The quiet one, and the most clairvoyant. Can's 1973 album dissolves the rhythmic engine into something nearer to weather, Holger Czukay's production sinking guitar and voice into a warm haze that anticipates ambient music by half a decade. Damo Suzuki sings as though from an adjacent room, and across the side-long Bel Air the group simply drifts, tides of shimmer and percussion gathering and receding.

It was Suzuki's last record with them; he left soon after to marry and, for years, to step away from music entirely. A summer record in the truest sense, its reach widening long after its makers had moved elsewhere. Released by United Artists.