The third album from this band from USA.
The band was a sextet on this album with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
The band was climbing the hard rock ladder in USA and their career was in good flow.
.. So what a good time to branch out a bit and include some more mainstream rock, funk, soul and..... psych rock.
Most of the album is hard rocking. This is why I became very surprised when Hugh Hopper suddenly showed up on the credits list. Yes, the band did a cover version of Soft Machine's A Certain Kind. OK, it is from Soft Machine's debut album and their two psych rock albums. Nevertheless, it is a strange choice from a hard rock band. But the band does a good version of the song.
I get the feeling that the band really wanted to become more than a hard rock band. And this is confirmed by most of the material here.
Most of this forty minutes long album is pretty hard rocking. But there is also some mellow psych rock here. My only gripe is the lack of any really good songs here.
The result is a decent enough album and one that will surprise the listeners who think this band is another run of the mill US hard rock band.
2 points
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