Maybe Someday/October Song/When The Music Starts To Play/Schaeffer’s Jig/Womankind/The Tree/Whistle Tune/Dandelion Blues/How Happy I Am/Empty Pocket Blues/Smoke Shovelling Song/Can’t Keep Me Here/Good As Gone/Footsteps Of The Heron/Niggertown/Everything’s Fine Right Now
A relatively orthodox debut album from psychedelic folk group The Incredible String Band. Their next two LPs would reveal an 'incredible' level of adventurousness and inventiveness. (UK:34)
"The first album I know in British history that doesn't just borrow little smidgeons of traditional British/Celtic folk music in order to diversify its generally 'pop-oriented' contents, but actually crushes these influences in a ferocious embrace."
"The band recorded this album as a trio consisting of Mike Heron on vocals and guitar, Clive Palmer on banjo, guitar, vocals and kazoo and Robin Williamson on violin, vocals, whistle, guitar and mandolin. This would be the only Incredible String Band album to feature Clive Palmer as he would leave the band shortly afterwards. The music is warm and well played folk-rock sometimes humorous and at times psychedelic."
"The Incredible String Band is a very solid and at times great debut album and while later albums might better represent the adventurous nature of the band, I still find this debut album recommendable."
"The first album is pretty standard folk with a hint of weirdness and not much of the exotic instrumentation that would characterise their later albums."
"Pretty good UK trad folk with slight psych leanings, but nowhere near as astral as they would get on the following album. High quality songwriting, well played acoustic instruments, good but not great vocals: all in all a very pleasant experience."
"The style is somewhat simpler and more acoustic than on their later albums, but it's a million miles from the sort of folk music that was around at the time. There's a sort of 'joy of life' that comes over in these songs. October Song is one of their all time classics, and there are many more beauties besides. Many of the songs seem timeless, not compositions from some fresh-faced kids."
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