If 2

This article is about the 1970 album by If. For other uses, see IF2.

If 2 is the second release by the English Jazz rock band If. It was released in 1970 on the Island Records label in the UK and Capitol Records in the US.

If 2
Studio album by If
Released	February 1971
Recorded	The Hit Factory, NY
Genre	Jazz rock Progressive rock
Length	36:32
Label	Island Capitol
Producer	Lew Futterman
If chronology
If (1970) If 2 (1971) If 3 (1971)
Singles from If 2
"Your City Is Falling" Released: March 1971[1]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

The album features the early use of Innovex Reed Sound Modulators for the saxophones. The single from the album was "Your City Is Falling".^[3]

It was re-issued as a CD first in 1996 by an obscure label (OSA), then in 1997 by Island and finally in 2012 on Repertoire Records with liner notes by UK music critic Chris Welch and containing a bonus DVD of four songs recorded live at the Mountford Hall, Liverpool University, 1 July 1971.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Your City Is Falling" (Dave Quincy) – 5:04
2. "Sunday Sad" (Dick Morrissey) – 8:18
3. "Tarmac T. Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac" (John Mealing, Trevor Preston) – 5:12

Side two

1. "I Couldn't Write and Tell You" (Dave Quincy) – 8:23
2. "Shadows and Echoes" (Margaret Busby, Lionel Grigson) – 4:24
3. "Song for Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday" (J. W. Hodkinson) – 5:11

Bonus DVD

1. "Your City Is Falling (Live)"
2. "Sunday Sad (Live)"
3. "I Couldn't Write And Tell You (Live)"
4. "Forgotten Roads (Live)"

Personnel

• J. W. Hodkinson – lead vocals, percussion
• Dick Morrissey – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute
• Dave Quincy – tenor and alto saxophones, flute
• Terry Smith – guitar
• John Mealing – organ, backing vocals, electric piano
• Jim Richardson – bass
• Dennis Elliott – drums

Production

• engineer – Frank Owen, Jon Child
• producer – Lew Futterman

References

1. Staff writer (13 March 1971). "Single Product" (PDF). Record World: 14 – via World Radio History.
2. Newsom, Jim. If 2 at AllMusic
3. "Special Merit Spotlight" Billboard, March 13, 1971 Billboard. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

External links

• "IF (6) - If 2 (LP, Album) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. 23 August 1970. Retrieved 4 August 2010.