Genre: Progressive rock
Places I remember: Slow Boat Records (Wellington)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Thunder and Lightnin'
Gear costume: Barracuda Dan
Active compensatory factors: There is a strong earthy feel to this album - and a distinct Band resonance: real music by real people.
Audience are a weird band - hard to pin down genre wise. Howard Werth's vocals are very distinctive but he's not a rock voice and the band instruments lend themselves to prog, or Art Rock according to wikipedia (whatever that is - I have no Art Rock genre section in my collection).
This one has Jim Price, and Bobby Keys adding their distinctive patois to the mix. All very confusing. Which is why, I guess, they never reached an, erm, audience.
Where do they all belong? Barclay James Harvest are next up in the prog section.
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