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What a revelation this album is to those of us who wondered what happened after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Clouds from Edinburgh, Scotland took up the baton and made a good run with this album, their debut album.

After a gentle introduction, Clouds proves their position as a major influence for Keith Emerson and The Nice's radical change of style from pop to symphonic prog. Some decades later, that also resulted in this website being set up. The track I am talking about is The Carpenter. That's three and a half minutes fusion of rock and classical music. That track, a seven minutes long track called Waiter, There's Something In My Soup and the title track is the best ones here and what we today brand as symphonic prog. Inbetween, we get treated to a pastisj of The Beatles influenced shorter tunes. Grandad is a song messrs Lennon/McCartney would had been happy with and this is the best of the pop tunes here. It is actually a very good song. Ladies And Gentlemen is also another very good pop track, bordering to symphonic prog as it is. The sound is also very good on this album and the use of symphony orchestra is both tasteful and effective.

I am not a big fan of the 1960s and pre The Nice bands. But this is a very good album which has really grown on me during the last days. This is not a masterpiece, but still one album worth getting.

3.5 stars

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