What Is Love/She (Will-O-The-Wind)/Howard Christman’s Older/Lydia Purple/One Act Play/What Love (Suite)
Self titled debut album from the Canadian rock band The Collectors. They were very popular in their native country but had problems extending this success elsewhere.
“The Collectors self-titled debut album shows a fine command of psychedelic rock and pop styles of the time. Side one is the best with a brace of small but perfectly formed psych-turning-to-prog songs with really interesting lyrics and structures. The side two epic, What Love, starts off strong but unfortunately loses steam, rapidly.”
“Quite a varied album with a lot of influences, the songs are all originals except Lydia Purple, a catchy psychedelic pop song. There are some distorted guitars, flute and sax, fine vocals, complex arrangements, soaring harmonies and extended improvisations.”
“The majority of tracks here are vocally driven, featuring splendid harmony, but little in the way of instrumental backing, yet still with noticeable psych flavour. Good song writing as well. The long side two track is non-melodic, non-commercial, experimental, and just rather bizarre. It keeps threatening to develop into something, yet never really comes close.”
“This is a great collection of songs that captures the spirit of the 60s especially on the West Coast. There are a few real gems like Lydia Purple. The extended version of What Is Love may be a bit much for some folks but you have to listen to it in the context of the 60s. Great psychedelic music.”
“An excellent, creative album that anticipates many later developments in both progressive rock and more mainstream pop. It rewards repeated listening due to the inventive songwriting. There are a lot of unusual things going on structurally, harmonically, etc., many of them fairly subtle.”
“When you put together a group of top-notch classically-trained jazz and rock musicians, the result is likely to be extraordinary - and this album is unique. Every song on side one is different. Side two is a single continuous piece, innovative and remarkably successful, running the gamut from moody reflection through psychedelia to frenzied despair.”
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