Ozric Tentacles United Kingdom

B110 Mostly Instrumental33 Prog89
[Awesome Production29, Awesome Musicianship29, Excellent Composition28, Great Songwriting14 and Great Coverart28]
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Review by Rivertree published
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B Psych Prog Space Rock

Spacey synth patterns, soaring guitars, proper drive and groove, the tracks are solid as expectable, provided by this veteran band from the UK headed by Ed Wynne. Except one track there's not much new going on here regarding innovation on the other hand.

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great, serves some deviating experimental attitude, features quirky synthesizer and nice acoustic guitar attendance ...

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Review by joolz published
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A Prog Space Rock

First impressions: typically meandering instrumentals that sometimes wander to no discernable purpose. Superb musicianship as always, but many tracks here lack focus. Indeed, when they stick to spacerock they are great, my problem is when they digress off into other areas like world-fusion and dub. Pleasant - but uninvolving.

Just occasionally it all clicks, and then it is magnificent - Afroclonk and Curious Corn are as good as anything this or any other spacerock band can do, with powerful guitar-driven rock grooves underpinning the spaceyness.

Certainly worth pursuing and maybe those other tracks will grow on me.

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B Spyroid 3:47
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S Afroclonk 8:06
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S Curious Corn 10:56
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B Oddentity 7:00
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B Papyrus 5:32
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A Meander 5:13