Suicide - STRAY***

Son Of The Father/Nature's Way/Where Do Our Children Belong/Jericho/Run Mister Run/Dearest Eloise/Do You Miss Me/Suicide

Suicide was the follow up album from London based rock group Stray. Despite their brand of melodic hook-laden hard rock being popular on the local club scene, they failed to gain much commercial acceptance.

“A good follow-up to their first release. There is some fantastic jamming hard rock and some great crunching lead guitar. Also a little touch of prog/psych here and there but not much, just mostly in your face hard guitar driven rock.”

“Worth a half star extra for its consistency, bringing it up to the same level as their debut, but their second album is ever-so-slightly off the pace. It still has plenty of solid power-trio style guitar driven hard rock, but mixed with a few much more commercially oriented cuts. But there can be little doubt that if you liked their first, this one will surely please as well.”

“Almost the powerhouse the debut was but not quite. There are plenty of great hard rocking jams, but oddly enough it is two ballads that stand out, Dearest Eloise and the beautiful Where Do Our Children Belong.”

“Overall a very typical early 70s hard rock album. You will get exactly what you expect - hard rock with some mixture of boogie, progressive, psychedelia and pub rock.”

“They were in the early seventies a very good live act - hard rock with melodic underpinnings. This is by far their best album and captures some of their presence on stage. Great burning guitar and entwined vocals. There is some whimsy, but it is the rock that drives through - Jericho is like a bulldozer as is the multi-layered Do You Miss Me. Though it is the title track Suicide which is the stand out. Although suffering some naff lyrics, it is the sound wallop which bleeds this track to intensity, and then gives you a good kicking before leaving the stage with amps fizzing and crackling like burned out winos at Mardi Gras.”