YETI

This album opens on a fantastic and wild psyche song. "Soap Shop Rock" is a wonderful combo for all psychedelic rock lovers. One of the godfathers of the genre is featured (Airplane) and this song is just a wonderful rendition of what was available during that period (even if AD II did not invent the style).

The great and psychedelic style that I love so much was quite some years old while this album was released. The psyche scene was born in the mid sixties and got its peak a couple of years later (68). Anyway, this album is a great testimony of that period and should worth your listening for sure. Krautrock being only a sub-genre as far as I am concerned.

After such a great opener, it is of course difficult to release songs of the same caliber.

The last section of this epic is just splendid. "Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm'' features such a sustained and great violin part, an emotional vocal section, a wonderful beat and a superb instrumental part. This is a GORGEOUS song by all means. It will overshadow any other one from this album with no doubt.

At least the short studio tracks which follow. Even if most of these tracks are quite satisfactory in terms of hypnotism, sustained beat, great vocals ("Archangels Thunderbird") they can hardly compete with the giant opening number. The powerful instrumental "Cerberus" is a good example: strong and wild, that's a given. But it offers little more.

I far much prefer the superb (but alas too short) "Return of Ruebezahl". It is such a complex track which only lasts for just over ninety seconds! Such a track could have reached the ten minutes and up mark easily. It is so much better than its follower ("Eye-Shaking King"), although the closing part of this song is just memorable.

As I have outlined, the best is featured on this album but the even is also present. At the end of the day, the best parts are the improvised ones which start with the title track. I have to confess that it borrows a lot to the great ASOS of whom you might have heard. Still, this wonderful piece of music should please any ears found of the psyche scene. I am just found of it. It is the best of this offering (together with the opening song).

It is much way better than the lamentation closing track for sure ("Sandoz in the Rain"). In between, there is another ASOS like track available. Since I am quite in love with this "track", I can only be touched.

Four stars overall for this great album.