The Alan Parsons Project's third concept album trades sci-fi speculation for ancient Egyptian mysticism, though the sonic architecture remains pristine. What Goes Up became their biggest American hit, its synth-pop hooks wrapped in Parsons' obsessively detailed production, all those Abbey Road tricks applied to prog-rock structures palatable enough for FM radio.

The pyramids might be monuments to the dead, but this 1978 album lives in that sweet spot where art-rock ambition meets commercial pragmatism, Woolfson's melodies smoothing the conceptual edges into something genuinely listenable.