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GREAT ALBUM, SHAME ABOUT THE SINGING.

M. Harris | BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX United Kingdom | 02/27/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This (and i have this on good authority from the man himself)is supposedly the vast majority of what was supposed to be the second crazy world of Arthur Brown album, of course they split up leaving me thinking what a great album it would have been. Nick Graham just doesn't cut it in this type of music (he went off to join the truely amazing Skin Alley where his singing fitted just perfectly-search out their first three albums great examples of early U.K jazzy/prog)On this he tries too hard and on 'broken wings' well embarassing is, maybe too polite. Nevertheless this album contains some absolute corckers 'banstead''sly''friday 13th' and the keyboard and drum extravanga 'decline and fall' Carl Palmer shows that away from the intricacies of ELP he could rock with the best of them, but the show belongs to Vincent Crane (R.I.P) who's hammond work is exciting and dynamic and the guy could write a great ballad 'winter' when he put his mind to it. John Cann joined soon after and they made the absolute dynamic 'death walks behind you' but this is a worthy beginning."