Rating: 4/5
Review:
A very good album
Although I can't quite agree with the rave 5-star reviews from most people, I do think this is a very good album.
Mark Barry steered me toward it in his excellent Overlooked Albums book,
and I'm grateful to him – as I am for a lot of other really good tips.
Mellow Candle's sound seems to me to lie somewhere between
Pentangle and Trees. One of the singers – I don't know whether it's Clodagh
Simonds or Alison Williams, I'm afraid – sounds uncannily like Jacqui McShee at
times, while at others their harmonising is very reminiscent of the
double-tracked Celia Humphris, and the material is often quite Trees-like or
Pentaglish. That's just fine with me,
and while I don't think Mellow Candle were as good as either, they're well above
the average slighlty-rocky-folky-harmony group of the time.
A very decent album, then, and well worth the attention of
anyone interested in this genre.
Recommended.
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