July – JULY***

My Clown/Dandelion Seeds/Jolly Mary/Hallo To Me/You Missed It All/The Way/To Be Free/Move On Sweet Flower/Crying Is For Writers/I See/Friendly Man/A Bird Lived

Eponymous sole album from the obscure London psychedelic rock group July. The group featured lush harmonies, keyboards and intricate lead guitar work.

“As far as British psychedelic rock goes, July fare really well. They existed in an era when rock was still single-driven, so the album features a couple tracks that were much more popular as singles than the entire album or the band ever managed to achieve. My Clown is classic British radio psych, with trippy, treated guitars and vocal harmonies. My favourite track is Dandelion Seeds which moves on a pretty jazzy groove and features a really far-out bridge. Jolly Mary is classic whimsical British pop.”

“It's hard to peg them, but their sound is light to moderate psychedelic with 60s Brit garage band if there was such a thing.”

“Obscure psychedelia which is so inept and amateurish that its flaws are somewhat endearing. At its best, the group has a fractured, Syd Barrett-type appeal, but the slower songs are a shaggy mess.”

“One of the better British psych albums, this contains all the things you'd expect: vocal filters, weirdo guitar noises etc. It all comes together quite nicely and rocks more than enough to balance the psychedelic trippy-ness. It doesn't particularly hold my attention but I'm just impatient. Give it a try.”

“July was a short-lived psych group from London and this is their self-titled debut recording. Most of the greatest psychedelic rock of the 1960s came from the USA but there were many nice UK psych groups as well. July was one of those even if this album is not a total jackpot. This stuff is very trippy at times despite the shortness of the songs.”

“Presenting a variety of psychedelic styles, July seem comfortable with all of them, as if they are totally at home in any shade of psychedelia. Even the weakest of cuts here is still at least pretty good, while the best are fire breathing monsters. This one has it all - effects, lyrics and songwriting.”