Aussie fusionary band Crossfire, 1975 to 1991

Crossfire number 9 in discogs.  Obviously a very popular band but some of their material is less accessible and I collected all their albums here in one spot, 7 in total spanning from 1975's ST to 1983's Live Montreaux (where else?) in the early days and the outlier the 1991 Tension Release.  There are a couple I admit I had never heard before including obviously that last one.

From humble beginnings, sounding very much like old and somewhat funky Nucleus, they got very commercialistic & smoothly professional in their later days. From the first and ST album, the Perverted Pavane with its just wonderful chordal intro:

The awkwardly named albatrocity from the second album is nonetheless beautiful, certainly musically better than its title:

That pun of hysterical rochords has got to be one of the worst in that joke category I've ever been witness to. Never mind that this is not rock and neither hysterical nor chordal. It's like what they say about AI: it's neither artificial, nor intelligent (in the human sense).  I think that references that famous statement by Churchill: I am neither Winston, nor am I Churchillian.  Or something like that.  Anyways we can apply the LPDP (Law of postseventies declining progressiveness) for sure to this band, and even, start it a little earlier in the late 70s to boot, lucky for us.  Moreover, the vocal album with Michael Franks is terrible, being smooth vocal jazz.