MUSIC EMPORIUM

Look out, fanboyish review coming up! There's one funny thing about Music Emporium, looking at the photos of the band in the cd booklet they don't look very hip, that is they don't look like an awesome psychedelic band but they sure sound awesome, in fact they probably could have played Woodstock and blown away most of the acts there (Hendrix would probably have wet his pants if he had had to perform after these guys). That being said I'm surprised to find Music Emporium on the archives since I don't see any totally obvious prog moves on their sole album (perhaps the prominent use of organ somehow qualified them for the archives?). However, prog or not, Music Emporium has been one of my favourite albums for about two or three years. The band is not doing anything totally radical or incredibly original they simply do their stuff very well and it's a big plus that they do no covers because their song writing skills are so damn good. I think there can be little doubt about this being a masterpiece, and the album is mandatory for fans of psychedelic music, but I'm not so sure about hardcore proggers liking this if they have absolutely no interest in psychedelic music.