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The Danish band's fifth and final album before migrating over to the more-Jazz-Rock-oriented Secret Oyster.

1. "August Suicidal" (4:32) sounds like a slightly more sophisticated 1960s Eric Burdon with The Animals or Arthur Brown's Crazy World. Organ, racing drums, guitar, and bass with pompous male vocalist singing and screaming over the top. Interesting bass guitar solo in the third minute. (8.875/10)

2. "When I Look Into Your Eyes" (3:40) slow, polished 1960s psychedelic rock. They musicians are skilled and very disciplined, but I hear absolutely no elements in this song that would lead me to think, "Jazz-Rock Fusion." However, I greatly admire the control and maturity the band displays on this musical expression. (9/10)

3. "La Beauté Du Buste" (4:50) soprano saxophone, bass, and wah-wah-ed Fender Rhodes electric piano each soloing at the same time, forming an interesting and surprisingly palatable weave. Now, this could qualify for significant J-RF points--though there is nothing here that doesn't sound like it was inspired by Yes Fragile shorts or The Doors' L.A. Woman. (8.875/10)

4. "Make Me Look Away" (5:40) this one feels almost straight out of the American South: like a Doors venture into Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Arthur Lee's LOVE; The Eagles and Joe Walsh before they became one. The earliest Lynyrd Skynyrd. Very solid, great Southern Rock with one heck of a lead guitar sound (and, for that matter, that of the rhythm guitars, too) and skilled and passionate guitar soloing (from multiple guitars!). This could easily have been a major hit on FM radio stations in America! (10/10)

5. "Rockin' Rambler" (11:42) a cross between Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grand Funk Railroad, and Uriah Heep. More stellar sound production and mixing that fully and clearly captures the work of these talented musicians. The song itself is really just a 12-minute two-chord vamp within which Ole Fick sings (and talks) in his VAN MORRISON/JIM MORRISON/MICK JAGGER blended style while Karsten Vogel toots his alto sax along-side. The palette thins in the seventh minute while Ole and Karsten continue vamping. Kenneth Knudsen gets some shine on his Fender Rhodes in the tenth minute before a major slow down, space out takes over (though I can still feel/hear the "absent" two-chord vamp right up to Karsten's final squeak. (17.625/20)

6. "Tell Me" (5:20) back to the Eric Burdon & The Animals (or War) style and sound with Ole following the bass and sax's seven note rising scale melody line exactly during the verses. The choruses are a little more free and interesting, but those repeating verses get pretty irritating. Nice professional ROBIN TROWER-like guitar solo in the third and fourth minutes. A fine, polished performance of a somewhat weak composition. (8.75/10)

7. "Accident" (0:15) bloody nothing. Is the 15-second gap between songs the "accident."

8. "After The Carcrash" (3:00) treated electric guitars slowly weave their picked melodies with one another for the first 1:15. Then Karsten joins in with his plaintive sax. It's like a funereal dirge. Multiple sax tracks woven together are what take us out over the final minute. Kind of magical, that ending. (8.875/10)

Total time 38:59

No matter how finely crafted, performed, recorded, and produced these songs are (and there is a LOT of finery here) this album is in no way, shape, or form a Jazz-Rock Fusion album.

B/four stars; an excellent collection of finely rendered Southern Blues-Rock songs. Would have been great to play in rotation with my Rolling Stones, Doors, Uriah Heep, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Eric Burdon albums.

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