SOUND MIRROR

I'm not sure how Syd Arthur came up with their name, but I suspect it comes down to honouring two of the UK's major originators of prog-oriented psychedelic music (or psych-oriented prog, depending on where you draw the line) - namely, Syd Barrett and Arthur Brown. Certainly, their Sound Mirror sounds like the sort of thing that Kingdom Come might have been produced if left to their own devices with 21st Century equipment and a stack of early Caravan albums. Released through the venerable Harvest label, Syd Arthur represent a fine continuation of that label's psych- prog tradition, as well as taking into account 40 years of musical innovation since that label's heyday.