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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Despite what another reviewer has said this album is a real gem. It has the clasic song 'The White Ship' on it for a start. This is an album that demands your attention. It is not mind candy . These guys in my opinion are up there with The Doors and the Byrds. This album is far more representative of the 'summer of love' than Sergeant Pepper as good as that album is..........
These guys were part of the Late John Peels Perfumed Garden Programme play list along with Captain Beefheart and Love. Spooky Classics, ideal FM radio fare, a cult band and a mystery. This album is well packaged and good value for money. Try some American Physcedelia and imagine being in San Francisco circa '67.
I recommend this album
These guys were part of the Late John Peels Perfumed Garden Programme play list along with Captain Beefheart and Love. Spooky Classics, ideal FM radio fare, a cult band and a mystery. This album is well packaged and good value for money. Try some American Physcedelia and imagine being in San Francisco circa '67.
I recommend this album
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I would say the HP Lovecraft are in the same league as the Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Electric Prunes.They do plenty of covers which for me is a plus factor.
Maybe no hit singles but after all the Doors never served what they got and Love-surely the stupidest name a band ever had-was grossly overrated.
Other psychedelic bands were even less fortunate-the Clefs of Lavender Hill cut enough tracks for an album which was dumped in the vaults
Maybe no hit singles but after all the Doors never served what they got and Love-surely the stupidest name a band ever had-was grossly overrated.
Other psychedelic bands were even less fortunate-the Clefs of Lavender Hill cut enough tracks for an album which was dumped in the vaults
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Apart from the fact that the occasionally strident, even mock-operatic vocals of this band might be an 'acquired taste' (especially on the track 'Keeper of The Keys'), this collection of the band's two Phillips albums is an absolute cracker. The band were obviously fans of HP Lovecraft, the reclusive horror fiction writer, and some of his portentous mystery inflects through the material - The White Ship and At The Mountains of Madness are taken from Lovecraft stories. However, the musicianship and arrangements are also top notch, and there are pleasing jazzy touches throughout, making this an album that is every bit the match of the early Pink Floyd albums. 'Blue Jack of Diamonds' comes across as a kind of early music / troubadour influenced thing. There's also something eerie about their sound, and their stylistic variety is little short of stunning. 'It's About Time' is magnificent, with a fantatsic orchestrated break that leaps from the speakers. All this, plus, with 'Gloria Patria', a smidgeon of Gregorian Chant, too. You should check out the Live HP Lovecraft album, as well, which shows that they could match their recorded majesty in a live setting too.
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