Golf Girl/Winter Wine/Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)/In The Land Of Grey & Pink/Nine Feet Underground
The third album from Canterbury scene progressive band Caravan, In The Land Of Grey & Pink, is their most critically acclaimed. It features grandiose instrumentation with lush lyrics.
“It is a wonderfully quirky, lovely, and complex album full of gorgeous songs and wondrous melodies. And it has the best Caravan song of all, the wondrously cheeky and charming Love To Love You."
“The music of In The Land Of Gray And Pink is spectacular in its essence, rich with texture, intimate, with swirling melodies of fantasy, which will inspire so many in the future. There is no urgency to the music found here, it simply flows over you, engulfs you. The keyboards are unlike anything I had heard before, and when those are mixed with outstanding lyrics, a more then creative bass line, and a crisp clean drum, we are presented with something so totally new, so very tight, something that is nothing short of sublime.”
“Notable largely for the lengthy Nine Feet Underground suite (which took up the entirety of the B-side) and the transcendentally beautiful Winter Wine. These two pieces alone justify this album’s purchase. The other tracks show the band in their folksy hippie whimsy mode, but they serve to charm quite a bit.”
“Probably the most played album in my collection and definitely the one I’d take with me to a desert island if I could only take one. It's prog, but never gets self-indulgent. The lyrics are thoughtful, witty and inventive and the musicianship is consummate.”
“It combines the grandiose instrumentation and lush lyrics of a progressive rock band, with the lengthy solos of a jazz fusion group. But even the chords over the solo section are not as straight-forward in a fusion group. Although the last track is a little tough to sit through the first time round, it seems to grow on you quickly. This is also the first time I've heard a Mellotron being prominently used as a solo instrument. All in all, this is definitely nothing short of a lost classic, and easy to understand why people say this is Caravan's best work.”
“I love the bizarre English lyrics on Golf Girl and the title track, and it just gives off that awkward British feel. The instruments off this album are just amazing. Overall In The Land Of Grey And Pink is a masterpiece of Canterbury scene music.”
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