Sunday 9 February 2020

Demian - DEMIAN***

Face The Crowd/Windy City/Love People/Coming/Todd's Tune/No More Tenderness/There You Go With My Baby/Only A Loner

Eponymous sole album release from the American progressive group under the name Demian. They had previously achieved a US top 20 hit as Bubble Puppy but changed their name due to fears they might be associated with the distinctly uncool bubble gum genre.

“A great hard rock album, not psychedelic at all, with hard rock in Led.Zep vein and many more hard rockers with some really excellent compositions and guitar playing.”

“This first and only album by Demian is a very satisfying package of psychedelic hard rock. Demian were the second version of the Texas psych rock band Bubble Puppy. Some really high quality material can be found on this LP.”

“More or less, a second album by Bubble Puppy, completely gone are all psychedelic influences. Here, the band concentrates on good guitar based hard rock, featuring some fine song writing with a great period flavour. A highly consistent release.”

“If you like heavy psychedelic rock with a strong guitar work then Demian's self titled album is well worth giving a try. This is a bit heavier album compared to the Bubble Puppy album.”

“Pretty typical example of early 70s blues/hard rock. It sounds OK, but there is no magic beneath and nothing to really blow your mind. Best tracks are Face The Crowd and Windy City. Only for serious fans of early 70s hard rock.”

“The quartet largely abandoned their psychedelic-tinged past in favour of an above average collection of Steppenwolf-styled hard rock. Full of tasty twin guitars (Coming was particularly good), and tight group harmonies it may not have been the year's most original offering, but still managed to blow away most of the competition.”

“This was the band's sole album. Demian is basically the four musicians from Bubble Puppy putting out a post-BP release. Notice its more hard rock than Bubble Puppy which was, of course, a psych band.”

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