Left to Find

Kestrel

Painters Clouds

Razor Truth

FM 145

The Fisherman's Friend

Barnaby

Crusade

Nothing but Morning

Druid

Fluid Druid

Definitely not as good as its predecessor, Fluid Druid contains about 40mins of average prog pop-rock. Dane’s singing, which in my opinion was one of the highlights of the debut album, becomes more aggressive and unnatural at places (e.g. Crusade). The production is also rather disappointing.

Highlights of the LP are:
- Painters Clouds (after the somewhat dragged intro, Dane’s romantic voice brings the song to life and a nice guitar solo ends it gracefully),
- Nothing but Morning (introduced by a gentle piano and Dane’s falsetto it develops in an energetic piece of music enriched with vocal choruses and concluded again by Dane’s graceful voice accompanied by piano)
- Left to Find (the best song of the album. It’s similar to Painters Clouds in structure, but better: a calm instrumental intro based on a nice piano arpeggio leads to Dane’s singing accompanied by piano)

Some of the others songs are average (the boring opener Razor Truth , the reggaeish Barnaby and Kestrel ), others are just disappointing (the instrumental FM 145 , the irritating Crusade ).

Overall, a disappointing second effort after the nice debut album.

Review by lukretio published

Druid

Fluid Druid 1976