Darren Lock e Jamie Cottle spoilerano su YT il contenuto del mega-box Soft Machine-Slightly All The Time: Recordings 1970-1974 appena pubblicato da Sony Music, indugiando sulla confezione deluxe senza troppo dissipare gli interrogativi e i dubbi della vigilia. Più in dettaglio entrano Roger Farbey (sul suo nuovissimo Elastic Blog) e Basil Francis (su The Progressive Aspect), tra i primi a rilasciare commenti: "Amazingly, these discs don’t even cover the band’s full tenure, only the four-and-a-half-year period between 1970 and 1974 when Soft Machine were signed to CBS Records. While the numerical titles of Soft Machine’s albums would never give anything away as to their content, this period between Third and Seven was easily the most transformational, with no fewer than five line-up changes causing the band’s sound to metamorphose rapidly, much to the dismay of contemporary critics. This box set doesn’t just cover those albums, however, but examines the spaces in between with the help of concert and radio tapes - some of which are previously unreleased - archival performance footage (and other TV spots) and also a weighty booklet containing Sid Smith’s detailed history of this era of the band."