The Nice – Elegy (VG/VG+)

Elegy is an LP by The Nice from 1971 released on the Charisma label.

About this album

Elegy is The Nice’s most ambitious and final studio statement, bringing Keith Emerson’s classical instincts into bold collision with hard-driving progressive rock. Issued in 1971, it shows the trio stretching form and texture across reinventions of Bob Dylan and Charles Ives material, alongside the band’s own increasingly urgent writing. The album reflects the explosive late-1960s/early-1970s prog era, when virtuoso musicianship and extended arrangement became a way to push rock beyond the single-song format. With Emerson’s keyboard firepower at the centre, Elegy stands as a fitting farewell to one of the key bands in his path towards Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Genre: Pop & Rock