Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: [the idle race] birthday party

The debut album by this unjustly overlooked band is a piece of classic
British psychedelia that transcends its origins. Most British bands
trying to achieve a psychedelic sound in those days simply played
softly and sang in a very effete and poetic manner — The Idle Race, by
contrast, play hard here and don't sound effete so much as just
cheerfully trippy, a lot like the Beatles of "Penny Lane" and
"Strawberry Fields Forever"; indeed, &"End of the Road" from this
album sounds like a rewrite of "Penny Lane." Jeff Lynne is the
dominant personality here, as composer, guitarist, and singer, and, as
one might expect given his presence, the music all has a Beatles-like
quality of playfulness amid the musical invention. The single
""Skeleton and the Roundabout" may be a little overproduced, but it is
beguilingly innocent in its zaniness, and the softer middle section
anticipates the structure of Lynne's later work with ELO. Much more
indicative of his future direction are "Morning Sunshine," one of the
prettiest songs to come out of the entire Birmingham music scene and
displaying languid guitar flourish that anticipates any number of ELO
songs circa A New World Record, and "The Lady Who Said She Could Fly,"
an orchestrated, Beatlesque jewel that sounds like a lost ELO track.
As demonstrated here, the Idle Race weren't quite as powerful a band
as their rivals the Move — who also loved to cover American soul and
folk-rock and, thus, had a wider variety to their sound — but this
album is steeped in beautiful melodies and even prettier
embellishments in the singing and playing, yet never loses sight of
its rock & roll underpinnings. Once in a while, as in "On With the
Show," the sound effects are a little more prominent than one would
like, and there's a certain musichall ambience to a few songs (such as
"Lucky Man") that is somewhat distracting — but those two numbers are
followed by the joyous and pounding "Pie in the Sky," so it all
balances, and overall, this album is very solid and a great deal of
fun, as well as full of little surprises and signposts pointing toward
Lynne's future.
 — Bruce Eder
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 British psychedelia that transcends its origins.
abbastanza vero. Non perdere neppure il coevo July, che forse si
fa preferire per la schiettezza dell'inventiva melodica
(canzoncine migliori, insomma).
Saluti
          silvio