Visit To A Newport Hospital is one of my all time favourite songs so I figured I should try for a third time to finish this album and I must say it gets better with time. It's an album that represents everything the Canterbury scene was while carving its own path. Listen if you are willing to stomach heavy distorted organs and long experimental drones.
Madness of the highest order, re-listening as writing this. Alifib was my main complaint but this has changed. This is a great record and as a Soft Machine fan I am as satisfied as I wish I could be. The whole Canterbury Scene is exploration and artistry at its peak, one of my favourite things to come out of this wild world we live in.
super cool, feels like I'm flipping channels in the post-Apocalypse. As if there are a few people in dingy basements playing warped records out there for anyone to listen to; there is even a long 4-minute track that sounds like a static drone (Forms 5). Funny enough I came across the record around one or two in the morning driving home. The perfect soundtrack to the apocalypse, and to modern times.
Probably my all time great live album, of all time