Yet again I am amazed at how many Prog greats I missed first time around and it is especially galling when the artist comes from my own country. This is a cracking album of rocking hard Prog which evolves around the Hammond organ, played here by the highly capable and dexterous Doug Rome. The mighty beast dominates proceedings and there are some great, growling Leslie moments. It's not all about the organ though and there are plenty of guitar solos. The vocals are strong and confident. The tracks range in length from five to ten minutes, which gives the music plenty of time to breathe and develop. It's not all one-paced and there are plenty of dynamic extremes. Stylistically, there is some similarity to late Deep Purple Mark One.

The song structures are not sophisticated or complex, well not in the way that people often seem to expect Prog to have to comprise. It should be noted that this is 1972 and the sound here is symptomatic of what a great number of English (or Scottish, as this band were) and German bands were producing. This heavier style of Prog is often now called Proto-Prog, presumably because the people that came up with the term don't believe it to be "actual" Prog but something that is almost Progressive or that this style preceded a more intricate and, therefore, legitimate Progressive movement. Needless to say I don't like the term and I don't believe that a less complex form of Progressive music is any less Progressive because of the pretensions or arrogance of latter day listeners. Back in 1972, there were infinitely more of this style of Prog to be found than the complex and often discordant variety that many listeners now deem to be the "norm".

This album is one of the very best, as far as I'm concerned, of it's type; it is great fun and is skilfully crafted. If potential listeners want high art or hate the sound of the Hammond or find music from 1972 to be "dated" (give me strength with that one), then they might want to give this album a wide berth. I'd have loved this at the time of release and I certainly love it now. Excellent find!