Posted Thursday, Octo| Review this album | Report (Review #832900) I'm going along with my fellow Archives buddy Tom Ozric on this one and giving it four stars.īesides, any album that interprets Lucifer's voice as sounding like Donald Duck has got to be on to Progressive rock band that could have gone on to even better albums. They were a more than worthy and exciting Shame we didn't really hear anything more of the band. Dragon showed a lot of potential, so it's a The album is extremely easy to give repeated plays. Uneasy contrast of dark occult-tinged moments with uplifting joyful elements quite fascinating, and Although there's many moments throughout the album that are quite unprofessional andĪmateur, there's just as many inventive and interesting musical ideas that really impress. Since acquiring the vinyl reissue by Golden Pavillion, I've come to really love the LP, playing it very Mellotron walls and chugging guitar riffs surround the listener.
Vocals, dirty organ/guitar stabs and thick spacey synths. Vocal melody, However, it's slightly more chaotic and unnerving, with sections of ranting tormented `Crystal Ball' is almost like a continuation of the previous track, sharing a slower but very similar Lots of long psychedelic moments in this one. Song section with positive lyrics and cute group harmonies before an extended Santana-like guitar Then it suddenly bursts into the main uptempo Such a great sense of space and build in this piece. Guitar, shimmering keys and even off-key horns creating a very gentle low-key ambience. `In The Blue' begins with dark electronic effects, a dreamy Pink Floyd-like atmosphere with echoing
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Poppy, and full of lovely Mellotron bursts in the chorus. Wind" is a brisk uptempo rocker with killer lead guitar work and a hugely catchy melody. Idea what the heck it means, but try getting that catchy chorus out of your head! "Gone In The "The girl with her hair in the wind, the girl with the key of time, ain't gonna wait forever!" - I've got no It's a surprisingly reflective and emotional piece. Guitar solo backed with grand piano in the finale. `Leave Me With Tears' has dark but stirring lyrics, with lovely weeping Mellotron and an expressive Vocal melody/arrangement is bad, just the way it's sung! Still, a great track with lots of energy and Theme with manic glee! The second half is an ambient and spacey instrumental stretch with a thickĬloud of Eloy-like synths and flute, before dreadful group harmonies float in. There's some amusing lyrics about El Diablo, the singer conveying the
`Lucifer' is a real wild ride! After a very laid-back intro with sounds of birds and the ocean, tastefulīluesy guitar with plodding bass and almost comical shrieking vocals launch in, with wailing electric Melody that weaves it's way through the cosmic swirling effects. Sounding, so that can only be a good thing!), then forms into a spacey and mystical instrumentalĪlong the lines of Pink Floyd and Novalis, with drifting Hammond and a winding fuzzy electric guitar Opener `Insects' begins with similar organ to the first Beggars Opera album (but less circus.
Real genuine conviction about their music. Singing, there's still something quite charming and naïve about them, that helps give the players a Members, they simply have to be heard to be believed! Yet despite the shrill wailing and reckless One thing that stands out about the album is the impossibly amateur vocals from the band Though the album jumps back and forth between ludicrously dark passages and upbeat positive Touches, the music has a strangely unhinged and energetic sound to it that's very addictive. Ragged bluesy guitar playing, wild singing, vague spacey elements and some slight experimental A rough around the edges but utterly charming heavy-prog album from 1976, `Dragon's self titledĪlbum from 1977 sounds like it should have come out in the very early 70's instead.
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