CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
BEE GEES: "Spirits Having Flown" (RSO) :: I admire the perverse riskiness of this music, which neglects disco bounce in favor of demented falsetto abstraction, less love-man than newborn-kitten. And I'm genuinely fond of many small moments of madness here, like the way the three separate multi-tracked voices echo the phrase "living together."
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
by
Robert Christgau
BEE GEES: "Spirits Having Flown" (RSO) :: I admire the perverse riskiness of this music, which neglects disco bounce in favor of demented falsetto abstraction, less love-man than newborn-kitten. And I'm genuinely fond of many small moments of madness here, like the way the three separate multi-tracked voices echo the phrase "living together." But obsessive ornamentation can't transform a curiosity into inhabitable music, and there's not one spng here that equals any on the first side of Saturday Night Fever. B-