Definition – CHRYSALIS***

What Will Become Of The Morning/Lacewing/Cynthia Gerome/April Grove/Father’s Getting Old/30 Poplar/Baby Let Me Show You Where I Love/Fitzpatrick Swanson/Lake Hope/Piece Of Sun/Summer In Your Savage Eyes/Dr Root’s Garden

Definition was the only album release from the New York psychedelic rock group Chrysalis. Although an American group their music appears more reminiscent of some British folk psychedelia.

"Definition is the lone studio album of this six piece psychedelic folk/pop band. It offers some really interesting psychedelic folk/pop with tasty psych rock and chamber folk-influences. I'm not utterly impressed but I can say it's a nice piece of 60s psychedelia.”

“Flitting butterfly-like between the gossamer light acoustics of Cynthia Gerome, the fuzz-drenched satire of Father's Getting Old and the ragtime psychedelia of 30 Poplar, the album takes lush woodwind and string arrangements, full-on acid-rock weird-outs and unbearably delicate jazz vibes and mixes them up into one giant bittersweet birthday cake.”

"Definition is a unique blend of folk, psychedelic and Dixieland influences. Typically such hybrid records sound like neither fish nor fowl, but this one works. Every track is a gem. It makes you wonder why no one else made a record quite like this. Many of the songs are about insects, but in a good way.”

“There's a genius in there somewhere composing wonderfully complex melodies and harmonies that are enjoyable and fulfilling. The tasteful flute work is tremendous. The album as a whole has that 'made-in-a-loft-by-hippies-for-hippies' vibe about it, a perfect mixture of psychedelia and folk-rock, not the darker psych emanating from San Francisco at the time. This was much more ethereal.”

“This is a neglected gentle, delicate classic, with some definite touches of the whimsical, pastoral sound of 60s British psychedelia and folk. Overall the feel is ambitious and wide-ranging, and the music is beautifully played and worked.”

“Take elements of psychedelia, jazz, folk, Dixieland, and combine them and you have this album. Definition is one of the most musically accomplished, adventurous, and literate records ever released.”