Fleetwood Mac

At a cost of two years and well over a million dollars,
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk represents both the last word in
lavish California studio pop and a brave but tentative lurch
forward by the one Seventies group that can claim a musical
chemistry as mysteriously right—though not as potent — as
the Beatles'. In its fits and starts and restless changes of pace,
Tusk inevitably recalls the Beatles' "White Album" (1968),
the quirky rock jigsaw puzzle that showed the Fab Four at their
artiest and most indecisive.

Like "The White Album," Tusk is less...