THE GLASS FAMILY Electric Band LP rare psych

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This is a very good/near mint condition vinyl record album, a 1970(?) release on the American Warner Bros. (1776, stereo) label by psychedelic band The Glass Family, "Electric Band."

12 tracks of heady, heavy sounds including songs like “House of Glass," "Born in the USA," and "Agorn (Elements of Complex Variables.”

From the fine folks at the Lost in Tyme blog, "This 40-years old record seems to have passed the test of time: not that it sounds "modern" today, but it has this 'classic' touch that we see in music made with honesty, love and joy.

"House of Glass" is the impressive opening track, full of tension and convincing vocals over a 13 Floor Elevators style music, "Born In the USA" is an almost straight R'n'B track, complete with harmonica (but it sounds a little phony and out of place), "Once Again" and "Sometimes You Wander" are nice soft-pop tunes (California style), "The Means" is an excellent hallucinogenic flying into the Beatles territory, "Do You Remember" is not far from Pearls Before Swine. "I Want To See My Baby" is a much more successful attempt on the psyche/blues style than "Born in the USA", with a nice fuzz guitar, reminding "Death Sound Blues" of Country Joe & The Fish, "Lady Blue" is basically a straight rock song, besides the psychedelic arrangement. Then we have the organ-based "Passage #17", the country-pop "Mr.Happy Glee" with nice mandolin, "Guess I'll Let You Go", a superb love song, where the minimal orchestration gives it inner depth, and the lysergic instrumental "Agorn" which starts with a drum storm that leads to a guitar riff, reminding very much "This can't be today" of Rain Parade.

All songs were penned by Ralph Parrett (except two of them that were written by the band), but I must mention the producer Richard Podolor, who did an amazing job here. Given that this record was released by Warner Brothers, the production did not buried the originality of the band, in order to make a record that would sell, but, in fact, brought the best elements in the surface and out of the many styles that Glass Family were apparently playing at the time, created an amazing record that owes to all and nobody, avoiding to sound generic or exploito.
It's a pity that Glass Family released only this LP: if they had continue (especially in the direction of 'House of Glass' or 'I Guess I'll let You Go'), they could have created a masterpiece."


Cover in vg shape - a little wear along left side of top seam, cut corner lower right corner, bead hole in top left corner, some staple marks from a price tag top left corner.
 Vinyl in vg++ shape -some scuff marks.

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