The Kinks - Sleepwalker (1977)

Sleepwalker is a 1977 album by the English rock group, The Kinks. Whilst there is something of a somnambulant theme to the album, this first album on the Arista label broadly ditched the theatrical and occasionally impenetrable concept album style the group had been mining with diminishing returns since 1968. A modern, confident series of melodic tracks was described in the American music press as "a phoenix rising from the ashes". The overall sound was certainly slicker than the rather rougher RCA albums of the mid seventies, but saw the group begin to edge closer to the stadium rock and pseudo heavy metal that would characterise their eighties albums. Wikipedia

Tracklist

01. Life on the Road
02. Mr. Big Man
03. Sleepwalker
04. Brother
05. Juke Box Music
06. Sleepless Night
07. Stormy Sky
08. Full Moon
09. Life Goes On
10. Artificial Light
11. Prince of the Punks
12. The Poseur
13. On the Outside (1977 Mix)
14. On the Outside (1994 Mix)