0171. Spirit
Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
The list returns to the seventies and psychedelia with Spirit's Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus, an album that feels a bit different from the rest of the psych. Sure, it's big arrangements and spaced out at times, but there's a feel of sturm und drang running through the album. The harmonise the lyrics in an almost pathetic extreme at times (at least on the A-side, on the B-side they've toned it down a notch).
The twelve dreams are of course the album's twelve songs. The unifying concept seems to be a love of nature (interspersed with more traditional love-lyrics - and some more unconventional, like the rather silly Nothin' To Hide). And there's not just psychedelia here, I can also hear traces of what probably inspired David Bowie and other glam-rockers on the track Morning Will Come.
This is yet another album recorded as the swan song of a talented band as that lineup of Spirit folded and the band never was the same again.
(And also there's a Moog synth!)
