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All We Can Do
Mellow atmospheric tones bring this into being. From there acoustic guitar rises up to serve as the backdrop for the vocals. This is a proggy mellow number that has a lot of Beatles like sound built into on these earlier mellow sections. It gets some harder edged prog stuff as it continues. It wouldn’t be a big stretch to imagine this cut as a song from Draper’s old band. It’s catchy, but it’s also proggy. It’s a great melodic rocker. |
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Monogamous Me
This is a bouncy kind of old school jazz tune. It’s fun and very retro in style. |
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Such a Night
Here we get another mid-tempo rocker. This has a great smooth, almost trippy vibe to it. It’s catchy and quite classic in nature. There are some cool shifts and changes. Yet, the whole “this is fun” vibe remains throughout. |
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I Would Be King
Now, this dramatic and theatrical progressive meets psychedelic tune really does feel like a long lost Klaatu song. It’s such an unusual, yet catchy piece of music. |
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All for Love
On the one hand, this is more of a pure pop song. That said, it’s got plenty of psychedelic rock influence in it. The duet on this is classy.
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Mother's Day
With symphonic treatments, this balladic number is another with a lot of psychedelia in it. It is also another that would have been at home on a Klaatu album. |
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Jules & Me
If the last song sounded like some lost Klaatu song, you haven’t heard anything yet. This has the same kind of proggy pop rock vibe that was such a big part of the Klaatu catalog. It has Beatles-like elements, psychedelia and all the familiar things. This is such a great song and so much in keeping with the Klaatu sound. The “Jules” in the title must certainly be Jules Verne. |
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What Will Be
Here we get more of the same type of proggy, psychedelic based pop rock. It’s another melodic mid-tempo piece that feels like something from Klaatu. I love the vocal arrangement, but the whole song works really well. |
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Our Park Bench
Spacey, a bit on the symphonic side, this is an unusual ballad. It’s quite proggy, but also very mainstream in approach. It’s a pretty cut and a nice change of pace. |
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Love Wins
More of the psychedelically based prog rock we expect here, this is another solid tune on a disc of solid music. |
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Searching
The title track is more trippy and psychedelic than the bulk of the album. It’s both the kind of music one expects from Klaatu and a Beatles-like number. It’s one of the cooler cuts here. In that way, it stands out nicely. It’s fairly complex, eventually working out to a more melodic jam. It’s arguably one of the most decidedly prog pieces here, too. |
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Younger Girl, Flower Girl
This one doesn’t work as well for me as the rest do. It has a real 1960s pop music vibe to me. It feels a little silly and awkward to me. I suppose if you are a big fan of things like The Beach Boys and other 60s pop bands, you would probably like this. It’s just not my thing. It’s very well done, though. |
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Everything Will Be Alright
Now, this is more like it. It’s another pop rock tune that has a lot of psychedelic rock and more built into it. It’s catchy, but also has plenty of meat on its bones. |
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Swami River
Complete with tabla and sitar, this is a trippy bit of 1960s psychedelia. It is essentially an instrumental, but does include some non-lyrical, Indian styled female vocals in the mix. |
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