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According to me this is German psychedelic stoned tock at its best, delivering unusual spaced out-heavy sounding improvisations mixed with detached pre-ambient atmospheres. My Solid Ground is a highly touching emotional album, the opening theme directly propulses the listener into an other world, exploring abstract spheres of the subconsciousness. The composition is dominated by cloudy / moody repetitive guitars, angelic, glorious piano / keyboards arrangements and ethereal voices in the distance. This is gorgeously haunted, music to heaven. The album contains a few conventional heavy rockin' songs (that's you / Handful of grass) that have a minor interest, but the rest is purely transcendant and constantly fascinating. Executioner is a ferocious / infectious hallucinatory composition with dark-sinister killer guitar riffs, intrusive keys and depressed narratives. An amazing moment of highly inspired moody music. Melancholie is a pretty / desolated semi-acoustic trip with an immersive piano / guitar duet and a catchy celestial melody, strictly instrumental & supreme stuff! So nicely made and among the best progressive rock efforts coming from Germany.The yellow mist / the executioner / melancholie make this essential!

I would describe their sound as straight forward, heavy Krautrock. The songs are fairly short except for the 13 minute opening track which is different from all the other songs and by far the best one.

"Dirty Yellow Mist" is a dark psychedelic Krautrock monster. It opens ominously before organ comes in with a steady but slow drum beat.Some brief spoken words 2 minutes in. The sound is dreamy. Guitar a minute later as a heavy guitar sound comes and goes. Spacey sounds 6 1/2 minutes in are joined by more spoken words, then a female vocal melody 8 minutes in. The heavy riff stops 9 minutes in as piano and bass take over. It's still spacey. More female vocal melodies. The heavy guitar sounds are back before 11 minutes as haunting female vocal melodies continue. A classic Krautrock trip. "Flash Part IV" has a HAWKWIND flavour to it. The vocal style and guitar riffs bring that band to mind. The guitar is great.

"That's You" is more uptempo as vocals shout out the words. Nice guitar solo early. "The Executioner" features mumbled vocals that are contrasted with the outburts of guitar and organ. The low end guitar after a minute reminds me of Iommi. "Melancholie" is an instrumental that opens with piano and light drums. Strummed guitar joins in as sound builds. I like it. "Handful Of Grass" is led by vocals and guitar throughout. It's ok. "Devonshire Street W 1" is pretty good. I like the vocals better on this one. The tempo changes back and forth. Guitar before 2 minutes is raw. "X" is uptempo to open with a guitar solo before a minute. It calms down and this contrast continues. Nothing special.

If not for the first track this would be a 3 star record for me.There is enough here though to recommend it to both Krautrock and Heavy-Prog fans alike.

My Solid Ground is a German heavy rock band that extends their rather simple compositions with some jamming and psychedellic features. It all sounds quite stoned, and with a little stretch of the imagination you could call this Krautrock, but it stands far apart from the mainly experimental acts in that scene.

One of the main problems with this release is that they lean too heavily on their influences, with riffs and grooves that are not just inspired but actually stolen from other bands (easy to spot Deep Purple in 'Dirty Yellow Mist' and Sabbath in 'That's You'). Where the borrowing isn't too obvious the band struggles to come up with good licks of their own. An exception would be 'The Executioner' which has a cool experimental vocal and nice epic mellotrons. The 25 minute long 'Flash' could have saved this album but everything is sloppy about it, the composition is poor, the jamming parts are cliche, the playing is flat and uninspired, the vocals are sub-standard and hardly in tune at times, the melodies are boring, and so on.

At its best moments this album sounds similar to what Eloy would deliver with their albums 'Inside' and 'Floating'. Only, Eloy did it 10 times better then this weak and forgettable heavy rock album. And the best bits are borrowed from other bands. Close to being a 1 star.