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Gotta say the they may wear a Canterbury Scene skin (more caravan/Hatfield) but the music itself is more Grateful Dead, this is particularly evident in the instrumentals. My god the instrumentals on this album suck. They just go on and and on and on, just unending guitar jamming over bare bones rhythms, so dull. The keyboards may as well not even exist all they do is hold down some notes while guitar rambles. I think this is quite at odds with the Canterbury Scene, a sub genre known for its spectacular keyboards, aka fuzz tone organs. Additionally, a janky flow between sections is nowhere to be found, the songs are long but don't really change. Furthermore, tracks like Astrognoght sound like the Rolling Stones, like rock. The Jazz is nowhere to be found, neither are the classical/avant- touches. Sounds like The Litter but with British accents.

Overall the album is okay, I think it is more Progressive Psych and would appeal to fans of that. For me it's too sparse, pretty much the entire time my ears are begging for the keyboard to do more then the bare minimum. The band underplays so bad it's insane, 10 minute long songs without any buildup because everyone plays like their finger are wet paper and the singer tries so hard to copy classics all I can hear is how devoid of inspiration Moom is.

Canterbury Sound Score 3/5, they try and the vocals may be meh but their on point for a lot of the album and their using more or less the right instruments.

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