CR’s Social Club

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Ed Brown: This is why I joined this club, to discover albums that I would have otherwise not have given the time of day. The only song that I was familiar with was Time Of The Season, and I just wrote it off as some boring ass hippy shit, but the rest of the album is surprisingly solid. Care Of Cell 44 is a new personal favourite.

Julien Thomas: Standing at the crossroads between Beatle-esque pop-song craftsmanship, easily listenable sunshine baroque stuff and protoprogressive rock (mainly due to the Mellotron), this album carries tremendous and sometimes overwhelming emotional dimensions, which make it one-of-akind. It’s such a pity it couldn’t gain the recognition it deserved back in the day. James Praesto: The 60s was a lost decade for me. I wasn’t of age to get into my own brand of music until the 70s/80s shift, and metal was my poison. This club has allowed me to go back to that mysterious decade and find nuggets I would never had started digging for myself. I had heard Time Of The Season, but that’s where my knowledge started and ended. However, having listened to the album all week, I have fallen in love with their clever melodies, their solemn lyrics, their interesting arrangements and wonderful choices of instrumentation. If I only take one album with me out of the AOTW Club that I had never heard before and absolutely fell in love with, this is it. So far…

Kev Sullivan: Wow. What a juxtaposition on last week’s. From the intro I was on board. The downer is that I love lyrics, or at least need to know what they mean, and I have no idea what’s being sung here. But nice. Chilled sound. Not what I expected from these guys at all. Not sure what I did expect, but not this.