Sounds more or less like you'd expect a band made of members of Cream and Traffic to sound, with a bit more of Humble Pie's softerer-edged soaring. The odd-numbered tracks follow a particular pattern, chugging along feel-good before plunging down a scary/fun psychedelic hole to somewhereanother. Can't Find My Way Home and Presence of the Lord provide sunny breaks in between, but the closer is something else. 15 minutes long, its not so much a jam as a deconstruction, predicting the negative space of Can, bottoming out into drum-dusted spaces and ambient noise and less and less in between repetitions of the main chorus/hook/refrain. Its a curious experiment, one of the earliest to go this far, but generally it kills the momentum of a record that is otherwise actually pretty tight.
That misstep notwithstanding, this is a perfectly good entry into this
basic category of hard, jammy rock. Less hooky than Humble Pie's record,
but with more depth, take your pick based on your groove and mood 3.5/5
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