RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE VOL. 2 - ANGEL'S EGG

I love Flying Teapot to death and I think it's a great starting point into Gong, but Angel's Egg seems to take what Flying Teapot did, compacted it, and made it more complete. There are plenty more shorter excursions here, but they work so well and many songs perfectly flow right into each other. The perks I notice here are Steve Hillage's guitar work (quite fascinating if you ask me), the percussion fest on "Love is How Y Make It", and the overall silliness of everything which is retained from their previous work. With titles like "Sold to the Highest Buddha" and "Eat That Phone Book Coda", you can tell this group aren't taking themselves too seriously, and I love them for it.

Pretty much everything from "Flute Salad" and onward is where I really start to get into Angel's Egg. Even the bonus track on the CD version I have ("The Ooby-Scooby Doomsday...") doesn't slow the album down a bit. "Prostitute Poem" might be my lone gripe, but that gets quickly drowned out by everything else on Angel's Egg. This is a lighter, goofier, way-less-serious side of progressive rock that is worth checking out.

4.0

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