LP TANGERINE PEEL Soft Delights (Re) YELLOW VINYL Hifly Sound HIFLY 8036 SEALED
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LP TANGERINE PEEL
Soft Delights
Limited Edition In Yellow Vinyl
Country of release: Liechtenstein, 2015
Original released: 1970
Label: Hifly Sound
Catalogue number: Hifly 8036
Barcode: 6501203914032
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Nein/No
Condition Record: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. Cindy Lou (3:16)
2. Soft Delights (3:12)
3. Goodnight To The Nights (5:06)
4. Long Long Ride (3:29)
5. What Am I To Do (4:02)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Talkin' 'Bout A New Day (3:54)
2. Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie (4:31)
3. To Judi (3:31)
4. Leave Me Now (2:56)
5. Moment I Recall (2:45)
Often considered pedestrian by psych fans, ( )Soft Delights is actually an interesting album. Two or three years on from 'Trapped', 'Every Christian Lion Hearted Man' and 'Solid Gold Mountain', the album had a different feel to these rightly revered pop-psych gems. It is in fact a strange mixture or configuration of pop rock and piano balladry. Mainstay of the band Mike Chapman wrote eight of the albums songs and co-wrote one other. It almost sounds as if Chapman wrote the rock and pop numbers as camouflage to sneak in his slower piano ballads, as they don't fit that well. The three ballads comprise a long extemporised number on 'Goodnight To The Night', and a shorter one 'What Am I To Do' on Side 1 and 'To Judi' on Side 2. I don't have anything against such songsmithery and they are pleasant enough in themselves, but they also sound rather mannered and as if this is what Chapman at this point was most interested in.
However, a fourth number which ends Side 2 'Moments I Recall' is a perfect example of the genre and has a definite Fading Yellow quality, a Mike Battishness about it, mid paced with a rolling rhythm and atmospheric sound and ambience.
Elsewhere, both 'Cindy Lou' and 'Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie' are great pop rock numbers with fuzzy rhythm guitars and good slide guitar work (especially on 'Jeanie...'). These remind me very much of Dave Edmund's Rockpile and have definite proto-glam rock undercurrents to them. The title track is a dream pop rocker and along with the two aforementioned numbers could easily sit on the recent Velevet Goldmine collection of junkshop glam.
If Cindy Lou was pointing to The Sweet a la Blockbuster, then the title track was pointing slightly backwards to The Sweet's late 60s period. The standout track for me is 'Long, Long Ride' which is an excellent late 60s rock number that could easily grace a volume of Rubble and harks back strongly to their 67-8 era singles. 'Talkin' 'Bout A New Day' is a great mid paced number again utilising slide guitar and a fuzz guitar riff, but employing an excellent light and shade approach and is very enjoyable. Lastly, 'Leave Me Now' is another very proto 70s glam pop sounding number with a 'toy-town' chorus which again has echoes of the groups earlier period..
Overall, not a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly not dull. It does lack in production soemwhat. In a number of cases the very substantial sounding guitar and drum axis is mixed too low and the vocal sounds too loud in comparison, but then you would need to know the full story of the albums recording to understand why that might be.
Apart from being an enjoyable album (although personally I find the three main piano ballads a bit wearing), this is an excellent document of how musical styles were changing at the cusp of a new decade and implying what (commercially) they would soon become. (Reviewed by Paul Martin - April 2003/pooterland.com)
Mike Chapman - Vocals
James Gaynor - Guitar
Terry Tootill - Keyboards
Warwick Rose - Bass
John Warwick - Drums
(not confirmed!)
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