GARDEN SHED

I got a chance to listen this album as my friend's father loaned the original vinyl for me, but sadly this was a disappointing experience. Maybe my expectations were too high due to the hyping I had heard about this album? The highlight of the album for me was the song "Yellow", which has some nice acoustic pianos and guitar sequences, and the singing melodies are pleasant and calm. All this being backed up with some good Mellotron chords also. The closing number "Poisoned Youth" following this song also starts wonderfully, but the later parts of this sixteen minute epic felt somehow irritating. The musicians are skilled certainly, but their sense of style doesn't match my tastes. There are some multi-vocal harmonies here too, which reminded me of Magellan or Queen. "All Alone" is a nice short tune with acoustic piano and vocals, but as it is running shorter than two minutes, it doesn't bring much extra value for the album. The following "Three Pieces Suite" starts promisingly; There are birds singing behind hypnotic guitar notes, companied with nice Mellotron and piano passages. But sadly this nearly thirteen minutes long song evolves later again to a direction which I didn't appreciate, getting some associations of Greenslade's "Bedside Manners are Extra" album from it. Then the only aspect that I noted from "Paraffinalea" was a rude fade-out at the end of it. As the feelings of this music weren't very deep or interesting, this quite easy listening stuff left me cold. As the things that displeased me were mostly stylistic, I would suggest that the fans of Mellotrons and symphonic progressive rock giving this album a listen, as many other listeners than me has liked it quite much.