Comus - Out of the Coma
SKU
23-CC 014
Shockingly, 40 years later, this legendary, crazy, over-the-top psych/folk band return, with the original personnel basically intact:
Roger Wootton – guitar, lead vocals
Glenn Goring – 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, vocals
Bobbie Watson – vocals, percussion
Colin Pearson – violin, viola
Andy Hellaby – fender bass
Jon Seagroatt – reeds, hand drums
It's really good and it's really them! Amazing. The only caveat is the playing time: This is, essentially, a 25' EP of new material + a previously unheard and unreleased composition from 1972 which would have been the basis of the band's 2nd album before they fell apart, but only existing in a live, bootleg-sounding tape, which rounds out the album. It's bootleg quality, but you can hear everything and it's still ok, as long as you understand what you are getting.
"Revived more or less entirely at the behest of Opeth’s mastermind, this frantic psychedelic folk rock group has ascended some 40 odd years later with what should have been their sophomore effort in place of the truthfully quite disappointing follow up to First Utterance, an album most certainly worthy of the title legendary within the psychedelic music scene. Evocatively, the album cover portrays a scrawny body reminiscent of an obsolete era. And what has changed since the release of the praised debut album in 1971? Not an awful lot really. Out Of the Coma is not at all very unlike its eclectic predecessor, delivering a frenzied execution of the same intriguing acoustic acid rock formula that clearly distinguished the debut from anything that was going on in the music scene almost half a century back in time."-sputnikmusic.com