FOR GIRLS WHO GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT

I bought this album on vinyl just because it was not accessible to me anywhere else: not on Youtube or Spotify, not on streaming platforms anywhere to what I could find. So, after listening to 'In the Land of Grey and Pink' until I loved it, I realized I had to get my hands on more Caravan material. And this is what I found. 'Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss' felt unusually rocky and Pink Floyd-esque for Caravan. At this point, I was concerned I wouldn't like this album. But I still enjoyed this song quite a bit. Some woodwinds and brass gave me some of that Canterbury feel I expected and needed. A guitar solo rips through at some point, reminding me of 'Nine Feet Underground - Medley'. I felt I needed a bit more angelic Pye Hastings vocals, like in "In The Land". 'Hoedown' feels like a callback to 'Golf Girl' or 'Love to Love You(And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)'. 'Surprise, Surprise' finally fulfilled my desire for angelic Pye Hastings vocals. A nice Peter Geoffrey Richardson viola solo ends the song. 'C'thulu' sounded magical to me at first listen. One of my favorite Caravan songs ever. It sounds so impossibly fun to record. It reminded me a wee bit of Frank Zappa's 'Stinkfoot' and of brother band The Soft Machine's 'Facelift'. Kicking off side two is 'The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again'. I don't really know how to describe it, but it's quite beautiful and great. It has some tasty little harmonies somewhere inside of it. After a while of harmonies, the music explodes into this future-jazzy keyboard solo in one of the best parts of this entire album. Then the music slows down and the harmonies pick up again to end the song. Another one of my favorite Caravan songs. 'Be All Right/Chance of a Lifetime' sounded eerily familiar to me at first listen. I still don't know why. The song picks up very quickly, jumping right into the rocky atmosphere and a short guitar solo. It is songs like this one and 'Surprise, Surprise' when I realize that the introduction of a viola player was quite critical to the sound of this album, even though it's a little odd. I say this because of the freaking bad-ass viola solo in this song. Prog on, Peter. Ending the album is 'L'auberge Du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go - Reprise'. (God save my fingers after typing that title!) This starts like a Yes song or something like that. This ends and a delicate piano solo plays. Other instruments follow until before you know it a beautiful symphony is unfolding before your very eyes. Absolutely heart-wrenching and tear-jerking. Maybe in the running for the best prog album-closer of all time. Maybe I'll run a poll. Who knows? The places this album can take you...

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