Reflection – STEAMHAMMER***

Water Part 1/Junior’s Wailing/Lost You Too/She Is The Fire/You’ll Never Know/Even The Clock/Down The Highway/On Your Road/Twenty Four Hours/When All Your Friends Are Gone/Water Part 2

Reflection was the debut album from the British blues rock group Steamhammer. It combines original compositions with some covers of classic blues songs.

“The vocals are a bit like This Was era Jethro Tull, the songs are blues-based and the guitars blues-rock sounding. This is just the sort of non-commercial music more people should hear.”

“This album is pretty amazing. Reflection offers some of the best blues rock moments I've heard. There are some psychedelic and prog moves also that make this album a more diverse totality. Here Steamhammer offer blues rock with echoing, distant sounding guitars and slow blues tracks that are just perfect. The rockers like Junior's Wailing are fantastic too.”

“Reflection was the most basic blues rock oriented record Steamhammer ever made. Their later albums would be more progressive and psychedelic rock. Of course this has elements from both of these genres too, but overall this is just a blues rock album, plain and simple.”

“Extraordinarily high quality blues rock and heavy blues, mixed with some standard hard rock as well. A great record, that suffers only from inconsistency.”

“Steamhammer were one of the most sadly underrated and overlooked bands in the history of rock music. Extraordinary musicianship by the band, and excellent smoky vocals by Kieran White are displayed throughout.”

“An excellent collection of laid-back British blues that's perfectly relaxed. Not the most adventurous or experimental of material, but quite listenable.”

“Just your standard boogyin' blues rock. Baritone-ish vocals, wailing guitar solos, occasional foot-tappin' piano. Sometimes some flute and art/prog-rock touches. Very dated sounding, to be honest. You'll like this if you grew up in the era, but not much chance if you didn't.”