Fift Daughter - Stellar Season

 Fruits de Mer Records / Regal Crabomophone (winkle 57)

 Fift Season is the latest new addition to the fabulous Fruits de Mer/Regal Crabomophone rooster. Stellar Season is their debut album and includes an excellent set of songs in the early 70s UK progressive psych folk fashion. They are actually a duo formed by Nicholas Whittaker (you might know him from the excellent prog band Diagonal) and James Howard (ex-member of Running Dogs). The album also features other Diagonal members Luke Foster and Dave Wileman as well as guitarist Will Hoves as guests. 

Like many albums of the original era, Stellar Season is a loose consept album about a rural society far from Earth that was in love with the Sun, Day and Summer with not so good end results. We have seven songs in 43 minutes and they form a very interesting, beautiful, well balanced and rather peaceful arch. We get plenty of acoustic guitars, sitar, great bass patterns, nice harmony vocals, soft rhythms, heavenly keyboards, synthesizers, woodwind and almost everything you would except from an album like this. Well, no clear-voiced female singers or violins, though. All in all, a very enjoyable experience that will give lots of aural pleasure to fans of progressive folk music. There are two different vinyl variants to choose from and the black one is the more limited version. Recommended!

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