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| 3.0 good | e210013 | August 19th 19 |
This reissue of The Flock's first two albums shows a band searching for an identity, at times
finding it, and others coming up a bit empty. "The Flock" is ultimately a more successful album
than "Dinosaur Swamps" is. It suffered from ultimately too ambitious and self-indulgent for its
own good. And if "The Flock" was more eclectic, "Dinosaur Swamps" was positively more
schizophrenic, with tinges of bluegrass/country, psychedelic musings with electronic treatments,
flat-out funk, higher octane blues/rock and hints of Zappa-esque absurdity. However and despite
the writing, arrangements and performances being perhaps dated, the music is fun in a guilty kind
of way. Goodman may be the drawing card, but this reissue rescued from the obscurity a group that
may not have achieved the success of its contemporaries, but over the course of this two albums
they produced a diverse and interesting body of work.
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