10cc – Bloody Tourists (180g, Acoustic Sounds Series)

10cc's Bloody Tourists arrived in 1978 as the English band's sixth studio album, and it caught them at a moment of transition: this was the first 10cc studio set built around a six-piece line-up rather than the tighter core that had defined their earlier run. Recorded at Strawberry Studios South in Dorking and produced by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, it also opened the door to a broader internal balance, with more songwriting and lead-vocal contributions across the group.

The album is best known for Dreadlock Holiday, the reggae-leaning hit that sent 10cc back to No. 1 in the UK in 1978, but the record has more to it than its biggest single. For You And I shows the band's gift for elegant melody and layered harmonies, while songs such as Shock On The Tube (Don't Want Love) and From Rochdale to Ocho Rios keep that slightly sly, off-centre 10cc character in view. It is pop-rock with a touring band's loosened-up feel, but still arranged with the kind of craft that made 10cc such an unusual chart act.

This 2023 remastered edition helps underline where Bloody Tourists sits in the catalogue: not just as the home of a major single, but as a late-70s album where 10cc's studio precision, pop wit and expanded line-up all meet. For anyone who knows the hits but has not spent time with the full record, it is an easy one to revisit.

Features

• 180g Black Vinyl edition
• Remastered with bonus track Nothing Can Move Me
• Gatefold sleeve with replicated original artwork and printed inner

Genre: Pop & Rock

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