This one, unlike its two solid gold predecessors, excites a lot of debate. Two sidelong collages of songs and fragments, a drone experiment and three briefer meanders around old themes. Lord Cope attests it was a disaster and hops straight on to its folkier succesor, Carnival in Babylon. Others, including those wacky Freeman Bros, linger longer over its melange of tunes and noises, and the entrancing (but not very representative) sidelong ritual drone of "The Marilyn Monroe Memorial Church". I'm in two minds. After this they pulled together to apply some rigour for Wolf City and the rocking Live in London but progressively got more song-based, and most of the frenzy went, which wouldn't be the first time a wild band ended up making ordinary songs, but still... See what you think.
1. SYNTELMAN'S MARCH OF THE ROARING SEVENTIES
(In the Glassgarden/Pull Down Your Mask/Prayer to the Silence/Telephonecomplex)
Download here (mp3, 15 mb)
More general reading on ADII can be found in the online version of the Freeman Bros essential Crack in the Cosmic Egg.
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