Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)/Armworth/Myopic Void/Mesmerization Eclipse/Raging River Of Fear/Thousand Days Of Yesterday (Intro)/Frozen Over/Thousand Days Of Yesterday (Time Since Come & Gone)/I Can't Fell Nothin' (Part I)/As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The Sea)/ Astral Lady/As The Moon Speaks (Return)/I Can't Fell Nothin' (Part II)
Eponymous debut album from the Los Angeles progressive rock band Captain Beyond based in Los Angeles. Formed by former members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly and the Johnny Winter Band. (US:134)
“There's no other band to compare with these guys to because they're so unique. If I had to describe their style, I would probably say they do a fascinating job of mixing psychedelia, heavy metal and even some jazz, with the mellow stuff the icing on the cake. The music is calm and lovely one minute, only to turn blistering and loud the next.”
“Captain Beyond is a modest rock treasure, an encyclopaedia of hard rock riffs. The songs gallop along, spilling over, merging together, presaging and summing.”
“Creative hard rock riffs, crazy time changes, soulful vocals and utterly schizophrenic drumming, all topped off with an entirely nonsensical concept and mind-expanding cosmic lyrics. Each song has about a million riffs crammed into it.”
“It is structured as a progressive rock album, with long suites and the songs joined together, without intervals or separations, which gives the record certain conceptual unity, although the prog of Captain Beyond is not so well-built as other art rock classics.”
“This album is not a collection of songs, but a song cycle in which themes in one song are revisited later in others. The record is meant to be listened to as a whole, not as individual songs. The album masterfully blends early heavy metal, progressive sensibilities and extremely catchy tune-writing.”
“An album very much ahead of its time - hard rock, but not metal, spacey but not too druggy, acoustic before there was the term unplugged, jazzy without being jazz, conceptual without being a concept album, with each song flowing on into the next. This is certainly one of the greatest guitar albums I've ever heard.”
“One thing about the album is its variety. It feels as if it spans the void, sometimes deftly, other times more clumsily, between late 60s psych and the more metallic hard rock of the 70s.”
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