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The Parlour Band - Is A Friend? (1972) {1991, Japan 1st Press} CD-Rip

The Parlour Band - Is A Friend? (1972) {1991, Japan 1st Press} CD-Rip

BAND/ARTIST: The Parlour Band

  • Title: Is A Friend?
  • Year Of Release: 1972 / 1991
  • Label: Deram / Polydor K.K. #BRC-29209
  • Genre: Progressive Rock, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:42:05
  • Total Size: 329 / 169 Mb (Full Scans)
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The British group the Parlour Band sounded slightly like a much more mainstream, less art-rock-inclined Yes on their sole LP, 1972's little-known Is a Friend. Several members later played in A Band Called O, also sometimes referred to as O Band.

Parlour Band's only LP is progressive rock-tinged mainstream early-'70s British album-oriented rock, competent but no more than that. Both keyboard and guitar parts take a strong role, and there's a bit of the multiple tempo changes and classical-tinged organ burble of bands like Yes in songs like "Forgotten Dreams." Some other songs steer well clear of art rock, though, "Pretty Haired Girl" coming across like prototypical early-'70s mellow California harmony rock. Even when it doesn't sound as Californian, though, the album's a pretty laid-back affair and, though it's agreeable, it's lacking in both power and first-rate songs. "Little Goldie" sounds a good deal like the early-'70s work of Todd Rundgren in its bouncy pop optimism and relatively sophisticated keyboard-based arrangement, though it's not typical of the record. A bit, though no more than a crumb, of art rock pretension creeps into the final cut, the three-part, seven-minute mini-opus "Home."

~ Richie Unterberger, All Music

Track List:

01. Forgotten Dreams [2:47]
02. Pretty Haired Girl [2:52]
03. Spring's Sweet Comfort [5:06]
04. Early Morning Eyes [3:56]
05. Follow Me [5:00]
06. Evening [5:03]
07. Don't Be Sad [3:20]
08. Little Goldie [3:24]
09. To Happiness [3:01]
10. Home a)Once More Loneliness b)Fortress c)Home [7:36]

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