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H. P. LOVECRAFT -Self-titled. CD

Artist: H.P. Lovecraft

Title: H.P. Lovecraft

Catalogue no: RRCD 016

H.P.Lovecraft

Named after and inspired by H.P.Lovecraft, the novelist and poet who died of

cancer in 1937, the eponymous band, with its immediately identifiable vocal

pairing of George Edwards and Dave Michaels, produced what is still

considered to be one of the finest psychedelic albums of the period.

The inspirational Lovecraft was best known for his macabre tales and poems

of an Earth populated by another race. According to Lovecraft’s legend, this

race, with its own gods and religion, was expelled from Earth for practising

black magic, but they did, however, remain on the periphery of human life,

practising their obscure rites and rituals and waiting for an opportunity to

repossess Earth. The writer’s Fungi of Yuggoth is considered to be his finest

poem, while The Dunwich Horror is still regarded as his most popular novel.

A combination of the band’s two strong singers (Dave Michaels was a

classically-trained singer with a four octave range), hauntingly ethereal

arrangements and some imaginative songwriting that draws heavily on pop

and folk influences, made this one of the best psych albums of the late ‘60s.

The album features some strong originals, as well as covers of early

compositions by Randy Newman and Fred Neil. All in all, a strong debut,

which, although deriving its inspiration from a somewhat sombre source, is

more haunting than gloomy, and which exhibits some deft touches of folk

and jazz, as well as some fine horn arrangements.

1. Wayfaring Stranger

2. Let’s Get Together

3. I’ve Been Wrong Before

4. The Drifter (I’m A Drifter)

5. That’s The Bag I’m In

6. The White Ship

7. Country Boy & Bleeker Street

8. The Time Machine

9. That’s How Much I Love You, Baby (More Or Less)

10. Gloria Patria

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