Elastic Rock

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{{Infobox album

| name = Elastic Rock

| type = Studio album

| artist = Nucleus

| cover = Nucleus_Elastic_Rock.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1970

| recorded = 12–21 January 1970

| venue =

| studio = Trident Studios, London

| genre = Art rock, jazz fusion

| length = 40:46

| label = Vertigo Records
Universal Records (2007 Remaster)

| producer = Peter King

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = We'll Talk About It Later

| next_year = 1971

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r45796|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=225}}

}}

Elastic Rock is Nucleus' first album. Recorded in January 1970, it was a pioneering work in the emerging genre of jazz-fusion. Bandleader Ian Carr (later a jazz journalist and published expert on Miles Davis) was probably inspired by Davis' "going electric" in 1969, but the seminal Bitches Brew had not yet been released at the time Elastic Rock was recorded, and according to Carr, they hadn't even heard Davis' less rock-influenced 1969 electric release, In a Silent Way.{{cite web |title=Ian Carr and Nucleus: '70s British Jazz Rock Progenitors |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15163#1 |date=19 October 2004 |publisher=All About Jazz |last=Kelman |first=John}}

In July 1970 the group presented compositions from the LP at the Montreux Jazz Festival, winning the first prize. They subsequently performed both at Newport Jazz Festival and at the Village Gate jazz club.