JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EYE

If, like me you like "A Saucerful Of Secrets" (the track) you will love this album. While the mood of the opening number is fully psychedelic, "Astronauts Nighmare" is more space-rock oriented. Actually it fully clones "ASOS". But so brilliantly that I have no weird feeling at all about it. On the contrary. It sounds just great. The end is rather close to the one of "Child In Time" (Purple).

"Warp Oversight" is a bit experimenal. Strange sounds, a bit chaotic, directionless. Could be interesting to get a live version of this one... "The Dream Nebula" are fully in-line with "Piper". Great psyche moments. On the harder edge (some notes coming straight from "Astronomy").

"Countenance" is one of my preferred song form this album. Again, "ASOS" is not very far. Wonderful and screamy guitar. Great mellotron. "The Nine" is completely disjointed. It could the start of a good "trip".

"It's All in the Mind" has a childish mood (during the initial part) but rocks alright after this. Great guitar work from Roye (the very end features again three, four notes from "Astronomy"). A tribute ?

The format of all these songs are quite short (execpt "Astronauts"). The second and last longer piece is "Burn Out My Eyes". Beautiful keyboards, smooth vocals and a fantastic crescendo part. The rhythmics sound great. After another "Child In Time" sort of false finale, the nice melodic debut are featured again. Another highlight and a bit more complex to apprehend.

The psychedelic mood of "Piper" is almost carboned copy during "Void Of Vision" and "Pupil of The Eye". I like the latter very much, although vocals are not very pleasant. The album closes on the very good "Death Of The Mind". Full of mellotron, great rhythm and guess to which number the final part sounds like !

Like Febus mentions, there are no weak tracks here. I can only recommend this album to all of you who like the very early Floyd with added mellotron (?). Four stars for this very good debut album.