RELICS

Pink Floyd

Psychedelic/Space Rock

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Uruk_hai

Review #20

"Relics" is a really nice compilation album of Pink Floyd's early songs from 1967 to 1971, some of them were part of their first three albums: "The Piper at the gates of dawn" ("Interstellar overdrive" and "Bike"), "A saucerful of secrets" ("Remember a day") and "More" ("Cirrus Minor" and "The Nile song"), but the rest of the songs were singles that didn't become part of any studio album and that is what makes this album so irresistible.

"Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" are two songs originally composed by Syd Barrett while the recording of "The Piper at the gates of dawn" and are in the same psychedelic/proto-prog style of that album; "Paintbox" (a song composed by Richard Wright and with him as the lead singer) was released in November 1967 (still with Barrett on the group) and "Julia dream" (composed by Roger Waters) was released in April 1968 (now with David Gilmour) these two songs are really in the vein of "A saucerful of secrets" and they would have fit really well on that album.

"Careful with that ax, Eugene" is the last single included in this album, which was released December 1968 and its live version became part of "Ummagumma" (the good version of the song). "Biding my time" is probably the most amazing song of the album, it was recorded sometime in 1969 and released for the very first time on this album; it's an exquisite jazzy suite (Rick Wright plays the trombone quite nicely) with a mind-blowing guitar solo and very powerful drum beatings at the end. In general terms, the album is a great compilation that explores the multifaceted styles of the early Pink Floyd sounds.

Uruk_hai | 4/5 | 2020-11-15

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