The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream

180-gram 2018 reissue

Cut at Abbey Road Studios

Limited time album download included

The Moody Blues abandoned the Oriental and Indian influences from their prior album in favor of more traditional Western melody, as well as science fiction and religious imagery for this 1969 title. Similarly, the sitars and tablas disappear, replaced by much heavier use of the Mellotron and the grand piano, among other Western instruments.

Both keyboards come to the fore in the album's centerpiece, "Have You Heard/The Voyage," a Mike Pinder tour de force and a wonderful piece of progressive psychedelia. The songs also rock much harder in spots than their previous records — "To Share Our Love" has a much harder sound than ever before.