On this day, 18-year-old soccer sensation, Arsenal’s recent £100,000 signing Peter Marinello was tasked with reviewing the latest single releases in the national music newspaper Melody Maker.
Amongst reviews was the latest by John and Yoko, “Instant Karma”, Jimmy Ruffin and Byrds was Cardiff’s Love Sculpture with “The Land Of The Few”.
Marinello’s review - “Is it The Who? It’s quite like them. It could get in your mind if it got enough plays, but it doesn’t get you the first time. Hey that sounds like Zorba the Greek! It’s okay, good for discos but not just for listening.
Love Sculpture’s new album release also featured in the review column with “Forms and Feelings” on the Parlophone label receiving this from the pop paper’s reviewer.
Much of the group’s work as classical overtones - for example, their hit “Sabre Dance” which is included here; the baroque going on in “In The Land Of The Few” and their arrangement of Bizet’s “Farandole” it can occasionally feel rather gimmicky, but at their best, the group as a heavy, rough sound and an original approach.
Instrumentally, the best thing is the bluesy, gutsy guitar. A nice album which tries to present the group doing very much their own thing. BD.
