The Wilde Flowers - Wilde Flowers

This is where Canterbury started. The Wilde Flowers led to the style and brilliance that is Canterbury Music. I of course, am a huge fan canterbury, whether it be Gong, Caravan or Soft machine. You can certainly hear elements of all these groups somewhere in the album. It is a very fun collection of the recorded Wilde Flowers, mostly short single doo dads and such, but fun to listen to none the less. Many of the songs are bouncy happy songs, reminiscent of some later Caravan stuff (In the land) but there is also some great slower pieces like Memories. The musicianship is of course great, being the creator of subgenre, it has to be good. The recording quality isn't always (or really ever) great, but these are the only real recordings of The Wilde Flowers, so that doesn't detract from it much. Over all, great to grab if you are a huge fan of Canterbury music (such as myself) and want to see where it all started

Rating 8.5+/10