SONGS OF LOVE AND PRAISE

Have been listening of NIRVANA (UK) as the real deal in comparison with the Kurt Cobain band for years, but never had the chance to listen anything from them, at last a friend sold me a copy of Songs of Love and Praise in 2 bucks, knowing that the guy doesn't care about Prog too much, bought it without any verification, sure that I had made a good business.....I was scammed, the album is terrible....well, maybe not terrible if you like soft POP, but surely boring and anodyne.

In first place, the album is centuries behind any UK Proto Prog band of the late 60's, something not so terrible if you are in 1967, being that most of this bands were pretty advanced for the era, but this album is from 1972, when real Prog bands were releasing masterpieces, so now we are having real problems.

Then come the vocals, Patrick Campbell-Lyons sounds like a Paul Mc'Cartney wannabe, without the class or charisma. The arrangements are so simple that many POP albums of the era sound much more elaborate than Songs of Love and Praise

At last, I simply can't guess what this guy had in mind, because the album is one of the most irrelevant mixture of styles I have ever heard, by moments is simple POP from the pre-British Invasion era, in some, just a couple of boring love ballads with no interest, but the worst comes when some winds are added, it becomes a boring POP-Motown-Muzak hybrid.

This is the first time in a review that I can't comment at least a good song (had a bit of faith in the opening of Stadium, but it was a mirage, the band managed to destroy it after a few seconds), because I disliked each and every moment of the album, If it was at least good POP I would give no less than three stars (respecting the guidelines), but no, it's boring from start to end.

Two stars for one of the most irrelevant albums I have ever heard, and only because there are worst albums.