B.B.Blunder - Workers' Playtime (Reissue, Remastered) (1971/2006)

This project was the final chord in the work of the British group “Blossom Toes”, three of whose participants after two years of scattered activities recorded an album under the name “B.B. Blunder. The most talented of musicians, Brian Godding, refused to record a solo disc. He invited friends, as well as fashionable rock singer Julie Driscoll, to put his ideas on the six tracks of the new album. The rest of the material was composed by drummer Kevin Westlake and bassist Brian Belshaw. This work was completely different from the popular underground performers of the first composition and second wave experimenters. Features of the disc are multi-layered guitars, a rich vocal palette (a whole chorus is involved in the pathos composition “New Day”), the appearance of wind instruments. The style of the album no longer singled out psychedelia (except for the amazing “Seed”) and shifted to jazz-rock influences (“Sticky Living!”), Transparent progressive compositions (“Research”). Here you can hear funk motifs, elements of pub rock, even blues. In a word, a talented and undervalued album, past the charts and quickly forgotten.