Lisa/Stone River Hill Song/Did You Get The Letter/Through A Window/You Miss Pflugg/Lady Bedford/Suicide On The Hillside/Sweet Fanny Adams/I’ll Be Home To You/Sunshine Woman/Hollyville Trail/Docker’s Son/Something For The Milkman/Too Young To Know/World
A Gift was the sole album from the psychedelic Texan studio duo Euphoria. It encompasses a variety of different styles including bluegrass, country, baroque pop and psychedelic rock.
“A varied collection of music that really gets you thinking at times. Incredible guitar and bass playing. These two lads put together quite a collection of original material. Moves from orchestral to country to rock with transitions of interest. All the genre's that are represented on this album are played to perfection. The more you hear it, the more it amazes and delights the listener.”
“This is an interesting time piece. They knew how to make a decent groove, and the harmonies were pretty cool, with some decent songwriting too.”
“Plenty to admire in this but I find it a hard one to love. After the first couple of tracks the juxtaposition of styles is not so jarring, and you have to admire the ambition, but there is something slightly cold about the enterprise.”
“It's a mix of strongly country flavoured rock featuring steel guitar and some ballads, and some harder psychedelic rock featuring fuzz guitar, lots of sound effects, forwards and backwards tape loops, and dreamy vocals. Despite all this, the majority of psych flavour is often hidden, daring the listener to seek it out.”
“A chalk and cheese mixture of dud country and 'interesting' psychedelia by a duo of hustlers who somehow cobbled this together privately and persuaded a major label to release it. One of those albums that has to re-programmed to make it listenable.”
“Really unique orchestral pop/country rock psychedelia. Most of the songs showcase the country or orchestral side of rock with some good string arrangements and twanging guitars. The best and most psychedelic song is Did You Get That Letter."
"This is a winning mix of country honky-tonk, psychedelia and symphonic pop. It's as individualistic, unique and original as one could hope to hear."
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