SUPERTRAMP – Even In The Quietest Moments… (Remastered 2026) HQ *0dayrox Exclusive*
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SUPERTRAMP continues the 50th anniversary celebrations in their half-speed remaster reissue series with three titles: 1977’s ”Even in the Quietest Moments…”, ”1979’s Breakfast In America” and 1982’s ”…Famous Last Words…” All three albums have been remastered 2026 at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The new projects all arrived on March 20, 2026.
A Top 20 hit in numerous territories, Supertramp’s fourth album Crisis? What Crisis? succeeded in building upon the gains made by 1974’s lauded Crime Of The Century. However, the chaotic nature of the L.A.-based studio sessions still rankled with the English quintet who returned to the U.S. to record the follow-up ‘Even In The Quietest Moments…’ in less stressful circumstances.
All concerned were right to persevere, for ‘Even In The Quietest Moments…‘ remains one of Supertramp’s most satisfying artistic statements. First released in April 1977, it went Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic and rewarded the band with its first gold-selling U.S. album.
Its chart stats were impressive considering it came out when both punk and disco were in vogue, but then fads and fashions largely passed Supertramp by. Instead, Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson just carried on doing what they did best – writing songs stamped with the hallmark of timelessness. They scored a Top 20 hit (‘Give A Little Bit’), and the LP included a clutch of the band’s most memorable songs.
”Even In The Quietest Moments… (Remastered 2026)” sounds awesome, not brickwalled, perfectly balanced better than ever.
Rick Davies, to begin with, weighed in with two excellent tunes in “Downstream” and “Lover Boy.” The first, a sparse and tender piano ballad, was effectively a solo performance, though the whole band excelled on “Lover Boy”: a deceptively jaunty ode to would-be Casanovas everywhere (“He’s gonna love ‘em and leave ‘em/Cheat ‘em and deceive ‘em”) concluding with an extended “Hey Jude”-style coda.
Not to be outdone, Roger Hodgson responded with three of his finest. Initially written during the soundtrack for a show at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens, the album’s haunting titular song played out over a mood-shifting six minutes, with its yearning lyric (“Don’t you let the sun disappear”) reflecting the transience of human life. A classic tear-jerker, it still ranks among Supertramp’s best, as does the closing “Fool’s Overture.” Hodgson later told Classic Rock that it was “one of my favorite pieces” and this ambitious, suite-like track, which included excerpts from one of Winston Churchill’s speeches, is now rightly regarded as one of Hodgson’s most epic compositions.
By contrast, though, Hodgson’s innate versatility also enabled him to write “Give A Little Bit.” Driven by strident 12-string guitar, this uplifting pop-rock song was a study in economy and it soon became Even In The Quietest Moments…’ signature hit, reaching the U.S. Top 20 on the way to becoming one of Supertramp’s most recognizable songs. Then again, its positive, pro-love and unity message has never really gone out of style.
“[Give A Little Bit] really has taken on a life of its own and I think it’s even more relevant than when I wrote it,” Hodgson told Classic Rock in 2023. “Because we really are needing to value love in a much deeper way, and also we’re needing to care. There’s a spirit in the song that touches people and a magic that comes out in myself and in people around the world when I sing it.”
A Classic album, now with a great remastering respecting the original tape feel.
Highly Recommended
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01 – Give A Little Bit (Remastered 2026)
02 – Lover Boy (Remastered 2026)
03 – Even In The Quietest Moments (Remastered 2026)
04 – Downstream (Remastered 2026)
05 – Babaji (Remastered 2026)
06 – From Now On (Remastered 2026)
07 – Fool’s Overture (Remastered 2026)
Roger Hodgson – vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizers, pump organ
Rick Davies – vocals, piano, organ, synthesizers, clavine
Dougie Thomson – bass
John Helliwell – saxophones, clarinets (track 3, 7), backing vocals
Bob Siebenberg – drums and percussion
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