IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK

1. Golf Girl it's the year, rock emancipates itself between psychedelic rock and Canterbury rock yes I already wrote it, a soft, popular and linear sound; a sound that gives space throughout the tracks with fluid guitar orchestration and imposes the genre 2. Winter Wine shows the aforementioned archetypal sound; a soft air, not SOFT MACHINE although, a fluid flowing sound, at first glance this does not cause; and then and then there is the progressive drift which arrives and which sweeps away the doubt; delicate and sensual pop rock, far from hard riffs 3. Love to Love You (and Tonight Pigs Will Fly) for the even more pop title, a consensual tune, a folk tune with the flute solo. I never understood the enthusiasm that this album could arouse, perhaps one of the precursors of the sound, perhaps; good Pye is there to hold the solo which goes well and brings back a little to the rock sound with energy 4. In the Land of Gray and Pink with a beautiful intro which finally reassures me, yes progressive; the sound in the same vein, more nervous, of the choirs, of the keyboards which give a little relief, yes where the low hurts for me; so take advantage of it... but why wasn't there any before?

5. Nine Feet Underground for side B, yes we get up, we change the LP, the K7 and we settle down again; beautiful jazz rock intro with Jimmy on sax, a progressive drift in the vein of future CAMEL; the soulful, cool, swirling atmosphere, a pleasant struggle between the different instruments highlighting themselves one after the other; 8 drawers for this long title, a real medley where everything stacks up; dissecting it no, but talking about it in a more subjective way yes; it's with the languid flute, it's really Camelian, it's also on the marshmallow candy that I like to refer to on Robert WYATT, the kind of thing you sink into; the finale goes up a notch and launches prog drifts into all directions and thus shows that prog blood can hide in a musical tune without there being the prog stamp... Well at the time there was no didn't have the stamp yet!!! (3.5)