HIGH TONES

This is one off those albums I wish every Prog Rock fan could hear at least once. Sure it has those commercial sounding moments like the chorus on the opener "Lonely Days" and there's some faster vocals I don't like on the closer that come and go or the vocal style on that traditional song "Night Clouded Moon". But man the rest is gravy with that flute, sax or guitar leading the way. A very British sounding album, especially the vocals that bring to mind Proto Prog. I thought this might be under Jazz here but "get" the Prog-Related tag with the commercial aspect of this record. RAW MATERIAL would be a good reference but the vocals especially the harmonies bring the 60's to mind big time unlike that band I just referenced. So Jazz related you could say with some Folk and those 60's sounding vocals. It sounds older than the year they recorded it which was 1971. A four piece out of the UK with brothers on guitar, bass and vocals along with drums and a multi-instrumentalist playing organ, piano, keyboards, sax and flute. A warm sounding album from a time long past.