Some may consider this a bizarre statement, but in my opinion Angel Station is the best album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. I like The Roaring Silence and Watch, I also kind of like Nightingales & Bombers and Chance. I am not a fan of Solar Fire, but it is decent. So, here we have an album that finds the different sides of MMEB at their most balanced; and of course this means, Angel Station is not MMEB at their proggiest. But still, from the 6 minutes and 15 seconds of "Don't Kill It Carol" on, it is clear that the listener is not listening to a light pop album. There is a certain depth to the package, perhaps even underlined by the strange fact that possibly the best new and self-penned MMEB song here, "You Are - I Am", is virtually derived from "Hollywood Town", a Harriet Schock cover that can be found earlier on this album.