Care Of Cell 44/A Rose For Emily/Maybe After He’s Gone/Beechwood Park/Brief Candles/Hung Up On A Dream/Changes/I Want Her She Wants Me/This Will Be Our Year/Butcher’s Tale(Western Front 1914)/Friends Of Mine/Time Of The Season
Disillusioned by lack of commercial success, British pop group The Zombies split just before the release of their acclaimed final album Odessey & Oracle. It includes the US No. 3 hit single Time Of The Season. (US:95)
"Odessey & Oracle is one of the many unfairly overlooked classics of the 60s. Released at the tail end of the decade to disappointing sales, The Zombies' last album is a lush, evocative masterpiece. It's a record of dreamy psychedelic pop classics, a set of songs that combine multilayered instrumentation, delicate vocal harmonies, and soaring hooks to create some of the most atmospheric soundscapes you've ever heard."
"Baroque pop is one of my favourite genres of music, and this is one of the best releases in the genre. I can't pick a song that I dislike on this album, and the absolute defining song here is, of course, Time Of The Season."
"This brilliantly delicious pop album is masterful. Every song has a melody that sticks in my head for days. Butcher's Tale is one of the greatest vocal displays I've heard. The harmonies are down right chilling."
"This album is about as 'Sixties' as you could possibly get. Even the album cover is flower power. The songs are solidly written, and the piano is crucial in all the arrangements."
"The psychedelia isn't the point. The point is the twelve beautiful, well-written, classically influenced, moving, heart-warming, heartbreaking, beautifully harmonized, creative, endlessly listenable songs."
"This record is so damn good. Fantastic string arrangements, vocal melodies, hooks, everything. It sounds exactly how the cover looks."
"Sheer bliss really. Easily one of the finest albums of the 60s."
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