Our New Day

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:33:27
The Embrooks: Mole (vocals, guitar, bass, percussion); Al (vocals, guitar, organ, percussion); Lois (drums, percussion). Personnel: Lois Tozer (drums, percussion). Recording information: Toe Rag Studios, England. Photographer: Tim Ray. Our New Day is an unabashed attempt to recreate the freakbeat sound of 1966: splashing drums, Who-type power chords and distorted guitar leads, tight pop tunes with harmonies, and a generally close-to-manic forward thrust. Most of the material is original, and when a band covers the obscure "Say Those Magic Words" single by the Birds (the mod band with Ron Wood on guitar, not the American Byrds with a y), as well as Dutch 1960s tunes, you know their record collection must be pretty deep. The album certainly isn't original, and would have never existed if not for the wealth of source material -- not just by the Who, but by the Birds, the Creation, the Eyes, and a whole sack load of obscure bands filling out vintage '60s U.K. and continental freakbeat compilations -- from thirty-plus years previous to imitate. At the same time, as mod revival (and '60s revivalism as a whole) goes, this is above average, the band playing with confidence and enthusiasm. Actually, even if it had been released in 1966, it would have been pretty respectable. ~ Richie Unterberger
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)