When a band releases material they obviously like, stuff they have grown up with, what takes them off at a tangent to produce music for TOTP? Money, fame, record company pressures, musical expansion? We may never know but this is ‘pre all that’ and what you get is an LP that probably had its origins in the clubs of the time.
Visitors to this site may know we like The Strawbs and this in no way disappoints yet again. It is gentle melodic music to bring you down, to offer an element of peace and tranquillity, something to put on at the end of a hectic week, sat in the garden with a glass and contemplating the rights and wrongs in this world.
And before you disappear under the smoke of your own making, ask yourself how it is that any band can deliver a 10+ minute track of this magnitude that holds your attention for as long, if not longer. Magical.
