Pass the clock (Mostly Autumn) (LP 3287 - 3289)

Mostly Autumn  Passengers (CD, Classic Rock Legends Records, 2003) ****  

Mostly Autumn  Storms Over London Town (CD, Mostly Autumn Records, 2006) **** 

Mostly Autumn  That Night In Leamington (2CD, Mostly Autumn Records, 2011) *** 

Genre: Prog rock

Places I remember: HMV, Fives, Fopp.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Pass The Clock Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Gear costume: Spirit Of Autumn Past

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I happened upon Mostly Autumn via a sampler (called Shine On) from Classic Rock magazine. Their song, Pass The Clock Parts 1, 2, & 3 clicked with me instantly. The cover of that sampler says '100% guaranteed goblin-free zone' and introduces '12 tracks of epic ambient symphonic metal and frankly mad new prog'. Bang on!  

BTW - It's a great sampler - it introduced me to Riverside, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Frost and Spock's Beard, as well as Mostly Autumn.

Speaking of which... their guitar heavy prog rock sound is at the Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour influenced version) end of the spectrum, so it was a bit of a no-brainer that I would latch onto them.  

Storms Over London Town was the first Mostly Autumn album that I found in Fives, just a minute's walk from where we lived in Leigh-on-sea. I instantly fell for the band and this album. 

It is full on and glorious in its embrace of almost metal prog. The classic rock sound of co-lead vocalists Heather Findlay and Bryan Josh (Mostly Autumn is mostly his baby) won me over completely.

The band has gone through many line-up changes over the years (Pete Frame is sorely needed with his family tree chart) but Heather and Bryan are on all of these three albums.

The fact it's a single album live album also works in its favour - no flab - just killer song after killer song!  

Passengers is the only studio album I own by the band but it houses Pass The Clock Parts 1 to 3 which I still love to bits.

The double live album That Night In Leamington, celebrates Heather's last efforts with the band before leaving to go solo. Being a double it's not as cohesive as Storms Over London Town but it still gives a worthwhile overview to the band's career to that point.  

Where do they all belong? Always keen to find more of their albums but nothing doing in NZ record shops I'm afraid.