Quite a lot to like here: I know these guys did some shows at one point with Acid Mothers Temple, and having gone through this album I can see why. There's a winding, enjoyable meandering quality to their folk-inflected revisionist psychedelic musings, an openness to the arrangements that's refreshing. There's very little here I didn't like: in fact, it might come close to a 10/10 for me if there was some flute or some Canterbury Scene acidic Hammond organ in the mix (as Caravan and Camel were prone to using on their early 70's output).
Let's go with a 9 out of 10.
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