Year one9/6/2023 ![]() ![]() "Juggle" A swampier feel is made by muffling the guitar and bass and adding some quivering Passages to high-pitched shrieks (think Uriah Heep), but keeps things mostly tranquil thanks to theįluttering woodwind- a highlight performance. "Your Love, My Love" Again the acoustic guitar is the main instrument. "Jubilation" A sparse song with only percussion to fill the void at first, this song becomes moreĪkin to 1960s folk rock, but features some sizzling guitar work. "Morning Lights" Beautiful acoustic guitar and harmonies make for a lovely, folk-like listening The spunkiness soon returns though, bringing in a funky saxophone ![]() "Now You Are in the Puzzle" Easing up a bit, the group offers a peaceful acoustic guitar and pianoĪccompanying pleasant vocals. Vocals takes over (sounding like a cross between "Soon" by Yes and "Ventura Highway" by America). ![]() Initially bouncy work, but abruptly a gentle acoustic guitar and sweet steel guitar with pleasant "E=MC-2" The band uses a combination of saxophone and synthesizer to make up one half of this Side- a convoluted description perhaps, but the best I can come up with. Gentle Giant and jammed with America a bit, but kept the instrumentation on the minimalistic ![]() One of the lead vocalist sounds like a softer Derek Shulman I might go so farĪs to say this album sounds like what I'd imagine it would be if early Uriah Heep got together with Overall, it's an enjoyable album with quite aįew rough patches. Of hard rock, jazz, folk, and psychedelic elements. This short-lived crew produced this one album and split, but what they created is an effective mix Posted Thursday, Ap| Review this album | Report (Review #1551982) Some mediocre material that's plain to see. Music is hardly what you call life changing, but it does have some really nice material, but also In this case the somewhat low price this double LP asks for just demonstrates this Despite the rarity of Year One's sole album, it's not all thatĮxpensive, so unsurprisingly it's not featured in any of Hans Pokora's Record Collector Dreams (who are also in Prog Archives), or even Family, not that any of them are just like Year One,Ĭlearly Family is a much better band (Prog Archives used to have an Art Rock category, before they felt Heavy Prog, Eclectic Prog, and Crossover Prog could better describe various "art rock" groups, and it happens that Family, Gypsy, and Year One are Eclectic. Manner, probably safer to call this "art rock", probably in a way the Minneapolis group Gypsy is The music can't be really considered progressive rock in the Yes or Genesis "The Juggler" is particularly nice, with nice synth parts to go with it. Of course there was Roger Waters building a wall (that is Pink Floyd's The Wall), but at least we sorta get the idea behind the metaphor behind that wall. One set of lyrics that really crack me up is "Morning Lights" that goes, "You say you want me to turn the sound down so no one can see you or hear a sound? Well, If that's what it takes know the truth, then I'll build you a dark room and make it sound proof." What? Building a dark room? I never heard lyrics about building someone a dark room just you they can't hear you. It seems that Year One avoid direct bible quotes, or your typical "Jesus is my savior" lyrics, although there are references to the Book of Revelations in the lyrics, but still not a direct bible quote. The music appears to have Christian overtones,īut they didn't seem overly preachy, unlike say, Scottish band Parable and their hyper-rare White Semi-psychedelic or semi-jazz rock direction, but some of the songs, like "As Much as I Know You"Īre just too plain repetitive with little creativity. Year One works best when they're more adventurous, going a It's safe to say, unlike The Wall, no one is It's the same gripe I levelĪt the far more popular The Wall from Pink Floyd (an album I personally felt was overrated).īrilliant material bogged down by a lot of filler. The big problem is the "double album syndrome". This really isn't some lost jewel, as you can often wish for United Artists probably had no interest in this (Fantasy recorded for Liberty, by the time Year OneĬame around, Liberty ceased to exist and most of their artists moved to United Artists) so it was Isn't to be confused with the UK group of Paint a Picture fame). Year One is basically the Miami band Fantasy without their female vocalist (of course this Fantasy ![]()
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