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ODESSEY AND ORACLE
'odessey and oracle' was one of the flukiest and best albums of the 1960s and one of the most enduring longplayers to come out of the entire british psychedelic boom mixing trippy melodies ornate choruses and lush mellotron sounds with a solid hard rock base but it was overlooked completely in england and barely got out in america with a big push by al kooper who was then a columbia records producer and it was neglected in the us until the single 'time of the season' culled from the album topped the charts nearly two years after it was recorded by which time the group was long disbanded ironically at the time of its recording in the summer of 1967 permanency was not much on the minds of the band members 'odessey and oracle' was intended as a final statement a bold last hurrah having worked hard for three years only to see the quality of their gigs decline as the hits stopped coming the results are consistently pleasing surprising and challenging 'hung up on a dream' and 'changes' are some of the most powerful psychedelic pop rock ever heard out of england with a solid rhythm section a hot mellotron sound and chiming hard guitar as well as highly melodic piano 'changes' also benefits from radiant singing 'this will be our year' makes use of trumpets one of the very few instances of real overdubbing in a manner reminiscent of 'penny lane' and then there's 'time of the season' the most wellknown song in their output and a white soul classic not all of the album is that inspired but it's all consistently interesting and very good listening and superior to most other psychedelic albums this side of the beatles' best and pink floyd's early work
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