Moving Waves

Prog musicians messed around with a lot of weird instruments, but pastoral Amsterdamned fusionists Focus found their unusual sound close to home: the human voice. “Hocus Pocus” was apparently intended as a parody of hard rock, but like Faust’s “Krautrock” it backfired – it became their most well-known track (even used by Edgar Wright to great effect in Baby Driver), and while it didn’t exactly popularize yodeling amongst their plugged-in peers, it remains one of the 70s most scorching non-lyrical exercises. Their more traditional excursions (including the side-long “Eruption”) also satisfy. That opening magic trick just couldn’t be topped.