Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

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Rumours by Fleetwood Mac has taken on a life of its own. Selling over 30 million copies world-wide, it has assiduously worked its way into so many households since its release in February 1977, that it's become part of the sonic furniture.

Musically, there is little fuss, no mess and hardly any waste. If the age was about redundant excess, you are hard pushed to hear any of it on tunes like 'Don't Stop' or especially 'Dreams', which both benefit from incredibly sparing instrumentation – there is so much left out, it makes the tracks seem somehow busier by memory.

It became one of biggest records of all time, providing an antidote to the era while remaining entirely in step with its time. It led the group to make its thoroughly crazy yet quite beautiful follow-up, Tusk in 1979, bereft of the editing and economy that makes Rumours so special.