The third and final album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, banjo, mandolin, guitars, slide guitar, piano, harmonica and vocals.
A guest provided harding fiddle and vocals.
This album is a studio album with the four short live songs from the Ragnarock festival as a bonus.
This album is mostly known for, hence my reason for buying it, the cooperation between the traditional folk musician Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa and the band. A cooperation lasting less than ten minutes.
Unfortune for the band and it's reputation, Saft is mostly known in Norway for this cooperation. This cooperation was or maybe was not a cheap gimmick. On this album, it comes across as a cheap gimmick.
This is a great disservice to the band and indeed to this album.
The rest of the album, 80 % of it, is a mix of acid folk and more west coast rock. There is indeed some folk rock here too. But that is British folk rock. Not Norwegian folk rock.
The vocals is good and there is some interesting stuff on this forty minutes long album.
The result is a decent album and one well worth checking out.
2 points
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