GODS - Genesis - EU Press - LISTEN - VERY RARE

The Gods are a truly important and charming, though still underrated British band with Ken Hensley, Paul Newton and Lee Kerslake - all three of whom later appeared in Uriah Heep! To all intents and purposes this debut album (recorded at Abbey Road and released in the autumn of 1968 by EMI Columbia) could well have been made under that name... as a psychedelic debut! Lots of Hammonds, nice guitars, Hensley's familiar vocals, quite a strong sound (Vanilla Fudge/Cream/Beatles), and at the same time plenty of thoroughbred, psychedelic moods straight out of "Sgt. Pepper", "Shades Of Deep Purple" or "Odessey And Oracle". All the recordings are interspersed with short sound collages that the musicians of Pink Floyd would not have been ashamed of! Well, it is worth discovering this album anew!