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...whose average lyric has the approximate weight and consistency of a summer breeze, have become the smash success story of the late '70s. They even outpoint the Eagles; their last album, 1977's Rumours, has rung up sales of something like 15 million copies. Their new album, Tusk, is two records' worth of prime Mac material; they may even be cueing it up in Dorset right...
...music business dropped off earlier this year and economic panic spread, investments of both high hopes and hard cash were being made in Tusk. Like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac was the kind of "monster" group that was expected to pull the business out of the doldrums. Both records, indeed, seem well up to such heavy hauling, especially since the runaway success of In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's album of surprisingly graceful power, has cleared the road and got rock fans to reach for their wallets again...
...Tusk contains not only some of the most infectious pop music of the year, but also some of the most adventurous. If there was a model or precedent for Tusk, it would seem to be the Beatles' "White Album," an equally ambitious and wide-ranging effort that attempted to bend old forms into new directions. There is much familiar Fleetwood material on Tusk, including the gossamer ballads of Stevie Nicks and the afterglow love songs of Keyboard Player Christine Me Vie, who has one of the easiest and sexiest voices in anyone's neighborhood...
What is startling on Tusk is the wild melodic invention of Singer-Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, who takes the band off into the ozone on tunes like Not That Funny and I Know I'm Not Wrong...
...dazzling collection includes, for example, a tiny, 6.4-cm-long (2½ in.) curving sculpture of a horse carved out of a mammoth tusk; it hardly seems possible that this graceful piece, fashioned more than 30,000 years ago, is one of the oldest objets d'art ever found. No less remarkable are the voluptuous "Venus" statuettes, some of them coiffed in Stone Age chic, that date back some 27,000 years. Even the wall paintings, some of them on a larger-than-life scale, show a mastery of form and perspective that was not seen again for almost...