Womb - Womb (1969) torrent

Artist: Womb
Album: Womb
Release: 1969
Genre: Psychedelic
Bitrate: 192
File Size: 61.1 MB

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Track List:

1. Womb - Conceptions Of Reality II (6:10)
2. Womb - Mary Miles Ryan, Where Are You? (0:51)
3. Womb - Morning Rises Early (6:11)
4. Womb - Peace (3:43)
5. Womb - My Baby Thinks About The Good Things (3:15)
6. Womb - Hang On (Look Around, I'm Upside Down) (2:37)
7. Womb - Happy Egotist (17:17)

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Womb consisted of Karyl Boddy (vocals-guitar-piano), Gregg Young (guitar), Roluf Stuart (saxophone-flute), Ron Brunecker (drums), Christopher Johnson (bass), and Rory Butcher (vocal-congas).
Their album, the first of two released on Dot Records in 1969 is a melting pot of psych rock, jazz, and blues,
including some nice vocal work from vocalist Karyl Boddy.

"I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who likes this album, as it gets rough treatment in some circles. To these ears, the group walks a fine line, introducing brass to psych without overdoing it. They also shift styles well, tackling blues ("Morning Rises Early"), rock ("My Baby Thinks About the Good Things", and the all-too-short "Mary Miles Ryan"), and folk ("Conceptions of Reality II", "Hang On"). The band's only mistake is under-utilizing and mis-casting the absolutely angelic voice of Karyl Boddy. Her Minnie Ripperton-like vocal on the lead track is enchanting, but elsewhere she aspires to something more raw, and while she does this admirably as well, a few more ballads would seem to have propelled the album commercially. The centerpiece of the album, the eighteen-minute car crash drama "Happy Egotist" has been maligned elsewhere on the web as one of the worst songs ever written, but the dark humor of a complete narcissist wondering why he should be punished for his girlfriend's death has a creative spark that's missing from all the similar odes in rock history. I'll take Womb's version of the concept over those of J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers and Bloodrock any day."

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