THE UNNAMABLES

Magma's cheeky attempt to create an introduction to their highly unusual work came at a good time, since in 1972 their style was flowering into the full-blooded zeuhl of Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh and was rapidly moving away from the Miles Davis-influenced fusion of their early works. This attempt at a "beginner's guide" fails as a beginner's guide, however, because it isn't really very representative of what Magma were doing at this point in time at all - it feels like a sappier, wetter version of the sort of fusion they'd moved beyond two albums ago. Fun for collectors, but I prefer the hard stuff.