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Another great album from a year of great albums, 1971. This band is good, real good, and the songs are high quality, with good vocals. This disc opens with a blast of fuzz driven power boogie, called For Mad Men Only, similar in style to the heavier versions of the oft covered Baby Please Don't Go. Following this, you have Snakes And Ladders. It starts out in a trippy funk and turns into heavy rock, with dark riffs and more fuzz. Great stuff! Then we get a mood swing. The 25th Of December 1969 starts off slow with someone feeling sorry for themself, all alone at Christmas. The music gets darker, and the song tells about places and people with real problems. It finishes up on a cheerful note with folks at a Christmas party, eating, drinking beer and hitting on a joint. Well written song with alot of meaning. Cut #4, In Part, gets down to some flute enhanced prog rock, powered by the very fine drumming of Tony Newman (I loved this guy's work on Beck Ola). The drumming is perfect throughout the entire album, but Newman really gets the spotlight in this one. Starting off side 2 of the original vinyl, 8 Mad Grim Nits is a killer jam, with guitarist James Black soloing all over the place on top of a heavy, jazzy groove provided by bassist Reid Hudson and the already praised Tony Newman. The music gets heavier as it goes, an unrelenting assault of rock pleasure. The mood changes again with High Beech, a mostly acoustic song with a spacey sound and feel, though it gets funky in places. Honey Colored Time is a dark vibed, slow tempo song that reminds me more than a bit of Scottish heavy psyche band, The Human Beast. The song gets jazzy for a bit, then returns to the opening music. Fine guitar work from Mr. Black towards the end. The album closes with a mellow, trippy number called Just Thinking. It gives me a mental picture of sitting on a deserted beach, the sun and your trip slowly disappearing. As a whole, a very enjoyable musical journey, though I could've handled another fuzzy rocker in the mix. Nice gatefold mini-album with Reportoire Records ususal high standards for sound and packaging. Get The 2nd Of May and get blitzed!Read full review
The 1st album by these Uni Student Club rockers was not too bad and probably benefitted from being on the early Vertigo label. Sub Leafhound in style. This album has a few moments of the same but is very inconsistant. For completists ( like me) only
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