AARDVARK

This album was fun! It holds the sympathetic feeling, which is also present in the album covers of this record.

The first song starts with a strong keyboard riff, and is a better example of their straightforward bluesy songs. Two following songs continue with same style, "Very nice to call..." has a neat piano on it, but I found the next song quite irritating, as there's a oppressing verse which is repeated monotonic through the entire song. "Greencap" has fuzzed vocals a lá "21st Century Schizoid Man", and the psychedelic jamming on it resemble remotely SYD BARRET's "Lanky". The last song on the LP side A is a hilarious one, which somehow resembles early URIAH HEEP, maybe due to it's rhythm and humour.

The B-side of the album is much better, and any psych fan getting into this should start listening from here! It holds a continuing non-stop music form beginning to the end, starting with hilarious "We're going away..." song. The start is quite normal organ-driven humour-rock, but suddenly the psychedelics begin to take over, and the unwary listener sinks in the sea of tonal chaos. The performers truly went away, as they were promising! This is very beautiful, it's like a homage to "Interstellar Overdrive" is trasformed then to the quiet and beautiful folky song, which then transmutes again to aggressive psychedelic jam.

I would recommend this album for those, who liked f.ex. GREENSLADE, BLACK WIDOW and early PINK FLOYD.