The Unspoken Word Tuesday April 19th 1968 us wonderful melodic distillation of folk baroque psych rock 2007 extra tracks release
The Unspoken Word Tuesday April 19th 1968 us wonderful melodic distillation of folk baroque psych rock 2007 extra tracks release The first album from this Long Island-based ensemble was a tuneful and ambitious collection of psychedelic folk-rock tricked out with polished harmonies and arrangements featuring elaborate horn and string charts. If anything, Tuesday, April 19 often sounds a bit too elaborate for its own good; the arrangements certainly reflect the trippy, philosophic bent of Gene Stashuks lyrics (which also suggest a Christian undertow), but fairly often they also tend to overpower them, and on these sessions the Unspoken Word sound more like a studio project than an organic group with a personality of its own. The irony is this has a great deal to do with the precision with which the Unspoken Word play their music; Angus MacMasters keyboard work is especially impressive, with a striking dynamic sense, and vocalist Dede Puma would have done any number of Broadway music...