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While I'm waiting for Syd Arthur's second album, I've decided to return to listen their brilliant and promising debut LP and I have to say that is a great pleasure for me to find again such an exquisite sound into the 10 tracks of this album.

Maybe there's not totally original compositions here. In fact, there are lots of 60's and early 70's inffluences, proggy psychedelic instrumental sections, some early Yes stuff and even drops of Canterbury sounds (specially on "Dorothy", "Night Speed Light" and "Promise Me") but Syd Arthur has their own particular style that includes the constant presence of violin and acid guitar riffs which provides the music of hypnotic and changing rhythms and textures.

If you are looking for all those sounds into just one album SA has to be in your colection. Into this album you'll find really great and sometimes complex compositions, such as "Promise Me" and "Truth Seeker"; melodic retro songs as "First Difference" and "Dorothy", and an acid fusion of styles (including some hard blues guitar riffs) such as in "Ode to the Summer" and "Moving World".

Definitively an album with no weaknesses that it'll be a pleasure to 70's rock and prog fans and for all those who are looking for a mixture of retro and new sounds... 4.0*