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Uriah heep sweet dom factory sealed12/7/2023 ![]() Unfortunately, Sweet Freedom was to be bassist Gary Thain’s penultimate album with the band, and he was to be sorely missed. When 1973 rolled ‘round, Uriah Heep had a stable line-up (in opposition to the second half of the decade) and you can hear the chemistry seeping through every note. All this means that Sweet Freedom has stood the time very well and while albums like Demons And Wizards are firmly rooted in the early ‘70s, Sweet Freedom still sounds fresh as it approaches its 50th anniversary. ![]() After the overtly serious The Magician’s Birthday, Uriah Heep sound like a band reborn and there’s a looseness and sense of fun to be found on tracks such as fan favourite ‘Stealin’’. Bold as brass and full of beans, it has a funky, buoyant beat that’s chock full of neat time changes and finds guitarist Mick Box scrawling spidery solos on every surface. However, the band haven’t lost their knack of writing strong openers and ‘Dreamer’ arrives with all fists flying. With such a punishing schedule they could be forgiven for becoming formulaic, yet this album found them taking a new path, shedding their progressive past in favour of a rockier approach. The rapidity with which rock band used to release albums in the early ‘70s never ceases to amaze me, and Uriah Heep’s Sweet Freedom was their sixth in just three years. An often overlooked album in the band’s canon, there’s never been a better time to rediscover this lost classic than with this audiophile picture disc reissue. The following year found the band honing their sound into something more direct and catchy, and were rewarded with their highest charting album (until then) in the critically acclaimed Sweet Freedom. When Uriah Heep released The Magician’s Birthday in 1972, you feel that they’d reached a pinnacle of sorts and had taken their progressive leanings as far as they could.
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