Evensong - Evensong

Rating: 4/5

Review:
Still a decent album

I missed Evensong at the time of its original release in 1973.  I'd have loved it then, I suspect, and it's still a pretty decent album coming to it fresh 45 years later.

The music is folky, slightly psychy and very much of its time.  It's quite lavishly produced in many places with acoustic guitars, strings, recorder…you get the idea, and the songs themselves are a variety of the romantic, the slightly mystic and so on, and even a rather good anti-war song in Take Your Son To Church Mother.  It's slightly cringeworthy in places (it's early 70s "mystic" – of course it is) but in general it's very listenable.  It's not especially original; I keep spotting bits and thinking "That's like Bob Lind's Elusive Butterfly/ Alternate Title by The Monkees…" and so on, but I like it as a period piece.

This isn't a classic album, but it has held up better than many from that time and if you're interested in the folk-influenced music of the early 70s, Evensong is well worth a listen.