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''Fourth'' is the fourth studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine, released in 1971. The album is also titled ''Four'' or ''4'' in the USA. The numeral "4" is the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out title appears on the spine and label. This was the group's first all-instrumental album, although their previous album ''Third'' had almost completed the band's move in this direction toward instrumental jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic pop group, or progressive rock group.〔(Reviews at Progreviews website )〕 It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left to record a solo album, ''The End of an Ear'' (in which he described himself on the cover as an "out of work pop singer"), and then founded a new group, Matching Mole, whose name was a pun on "Soft Machine" as pronounced in French: "Machine Molle". Like the previous Soft Machine album, this one uses session musicians who were not regarded as full group members, but toured with the band for live performances. In 1999, Soft Machine albums ''Fourth'' and ''Fifth'' were re-released together on one CD. In 2007, The ''Fourth'' was re-released as part of the series ''Soft Machine Remastered – The CBS Years 1970–1973''. The booklets of these re-releases contain liner notes written by Mark Powell from Esoteric Recordings about the history of Soft Machine, their musical development and as one of the first relevant bands in the so-called progressive rock scene. ==Track listing== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fourth (Soft Machine album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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