Stray - STRAY***

All In Your Mind/Taken All The Good Things/Around The World In Eighty Days/Time Machine/Only What You Make It/Yesterday's Promises/Move On/In Reverse-Some Say

Eponymous debut album from the British melodic hard rock band Stray. Although attracting favourable plaudits from the critics, none of their many album releases in the 1970s troubled the charts.

“While essentially performing busy, prog heavy guitar rock, this is a band blessed with inventive arrangement ideas and the energy to execute them with flair. There really isn't a bad track on this record.”

“Stray's 1970 debut album is a true killer mix of psychedelia and guitar-driven hard rock sound. The songwriting is superb and all these tracks are effective.” “A solid release, whose musical range spans all the way from blissful psychedelia to the threshold of heavy progressive rock.”

“Stray's self-titled album from 1970 is one of the best hard rock/heavy psych debuts you can find. Their sound consists of unique psych-flavoured hard rock with awesome song structures and wicked guitar work. What makes this unique is that it doesn't sound anything like a typical 70s hard rock release.”

“These progressive and psych-leaning songs are all well written, and the playing is very energetic with some intense jams. It is really hard to believe that these guys were all teens when they recorded this.”

“Stray are a forgotten hard rock band from the early seventies who were young, sloppy and brilliant. Anyone interested in a record of thundering boogie and howling anthems with often hilarious themes, and which is distinctly British, could do much worse than popping this one on.”

“This band is quite obscure from a mainstream perspective, but most hard rock fans successfully seek this one out. Their sound is rather ahead of it's time for 1970, with an awesome heavy metal style of hard rock. Fans of the genre will not be disappointed.”

“All In Your Mind, which the mighty Iron Maiden would later cover, is an amazing proto-metal song with blistering twin guitar. Around The World In Eighty Days is pure hard rock bliss. This is a must have for fans of hard rock and metal.”