aaamusic | On 02, Oct 2011

Chicago’s The Luck of Eden Hall have carved themselves out as being a fine psychedelic rock band and this year see’s them release their EP ‘She Comes In Colours’ which features two original tracks and two covers.

The first of the two covers is of ‘She Comes In Colours’ by Arthur Lee’s Love. Having stuck to the overall 60’s psych vibe of the track and adding in some extra layers, including a flute and many layered guitars, they have stuck faithfully to the original track.

‘Never My Love’ which was originally by The Association and has the band reaching Eastwards with a psychedelic sitar playing throughout the track once again to bring about the 60’s spiritual side of the track.

‘Chrysalide’ is the first of the two original tracks and it it very clear that they wrote this one. Whereas the previous traces were more rooted in psychedelia this one whilst still taking influence from that scene it has a more hard rock edge to it.

The final track is ‘The Ottoman Girl’ which is a fairly standard psychedelic rock song which much of the psychedelia taken out. It’s a perfectly nice enough track but doesn’t really go anywhere and you find yourself just not paying it any attention.

Despite them taking so much influence from the 60’s psych traditions what was striking about this EP was how much it rather sounded like 70’s prog than 60s psych. It is also a disturbing sign of a band when they release an EP of original and covers and it the song they didn’t write that are better than their own. This isn’t necessarily a bad EP but frankly you’d be better off investing your money buying a Love or The Association record instead.

Author: Barry Gray