Reincarnation
Not to be confused with David Meltzer’s Serpent Power
actually from the late 60s, this is an album in two parts: first, the opening
three tracks – Dr Lovecraft’s Asylum, The
Man Who Shrunk the World and Lucifer’s Dreambox - second, the other
nine on this 2014 album.
That opening trio is more expansively psychedelic in its
reflection of a late 60s sound with Beatles-esque harmonies and Martin
orchestrations, Lucifer’s Dreambox
more in the Jefferson Airplane arena, and it is gloriously effective in
re-creating that sound. The rest is more pop songish but from that same era in its
reflecting.
Not surprising that the album holds up this mirror to the
past, its two players being Ian Skelly of The Coral, a band steeped in the
harmony-driven music of the late 60s/early 70s, and Paul Molloy of The Zutons,
a band that indulged more in the rockier echoes of those times. It is an
enjoyable reincarnation in all senses.
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