VOLUME TWO

The Soft Machine

Canterbury Scene

4.02 | 604 ratings

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toroddfuglesteg

This is the second album from this great band and a small pointer towards the great things to come, Third.

The songs on this album though, their second album, is pretty short though. They are a natural development from their debut album. It is also a leap towards the type of jazz which became their trademark. Musically, this is an album with weird psycho pop/rock songs, coloured with a lot of jazz improvisations. The Beatles, it is not. Neither is it Gong or Caravan. The drumming is strange and throws up some strange rhythm patterns. The vocals is weird too. I guess they call this space pop. Or maybe just spaced out music. The piano takes off for a journey into outer space when the piano kicks in. The sax is very jazzy. This is not pop/rock in a traditional sense. This is The Soft Machine.

Quality wise, this album is pretty good. There is no outstanding tracks here. Just some slightly hypnotic pieces of music. It is an improvement from their debut album and just that. But it is not a masterpiece by any means.

3 stars

toroddfuglesteg | 3/5 | 2009-9-28

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