Ice Queen/Empty Houses/Insolent Lady/Miracle Worker/Religion/Sun God
Time Is was the second and final album from the British progressive band Raw Material. During their existence they remained little known in the UK but enjoyed some relative success on the continent.
“Time Is was the second and last album by Raw Material, and an improvement on their debut. The songs are all pretty good, especially the long album closer Sun God which stands out here. It sounds almost like something Pink Floyd could have done later in the 70s. It's not a great album but it deserves a listen if you consider yourself as a progressive rock fan.”
“Much better than their first release. Nice hard prog with some cool fuzz guitar. Well written tunes and the band is tight. There is some sax but not enough to hurt this recording but adding the synth costs at least half a star.”
“Some more excellent stuff in the same vein as their debut. Fairly non-commercial prog hard rock, featuring sax, and some extended tracks that border on trippy.” “A wild looking bunch playing good progressive music based on heavy guitar and sax riffs, organ and keyboard chords, flute and strong vocals.”
"Ice Queen really opens in strong fashion with the sax/guitar riff and goes through many great themes. Empty Houses has some great almost psychedelic solos in it. Insolent Lady goes through many powerful time signatures and is one of the best tracks here. Miracle Worker and Religion are also more than OK but maybe a bit too repetitious in contrast to the other suite like songs. Sun God is a mellow track that is in places almost spiritual in its character. The music leans towards prog folk-rock but also with the usual contrast from soft to heavy passages.”
“What we have here is a fine marriage of styles which can be described as imperious sax rhythms holding hands with introspective guitar solos. The two opening tracks Ice Queen and Empty Houses illustrate this fusion nicely. The highlight is Insolent Lady whose climax seems to almost out Floyd the Pink Floyd band. It's one of the great, albeit unknown, moments of progressive rock. Sun God closes the album and is about ascent from darkness into light, the light being a crescendo wail of keyboards and vocals.”
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