Best try to imagine these slices of thoroughly decent, middle-of-theroad psych-pop in their original form: on one side of a disposable piece of plaggy. In that case, there are several tracks here which suggest themselves as acceptable pirate-radio filler fodder. A Strange Light From The East jangles enjoyable cod-mystical bells, but never lifts off like Dave Dee & Co’s The Legend of Xanadu. Summer Leaves Me With A Sigh is the best of the bunch, but it wouldn’t have made a Tremeloes A-side. Baby I Need You isn’t quite The Foundations… and so on. Across the whole collection, there are big horns, whirling organs, groovy production jobs and good performances. But…
Tuesday’s Children’s problem is partly indicated by their big idea of dressing up in four differentcoloured silky costumes, with fake moustaches. Ultimately, a serving of 18 similar, well-crafted pieces of peakless pop is generous, but indigestible. We’d trade the whole shebang for just one combination of a memorable lyric with a killer hook – and we guess Tuesday’s Children would’ve done, too.
