Sunday 3 November 2019

Os Mutantes - Mutantes (1969)


The second album from this Brazilian band.

The band was a trio on this album with a lineup of theremin, autoharp, percussion, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and vocals. Both male and female vocals.
The band had help from some guest musicians who provided viola, cello, accordion, electronics and vocals.

Their self-titled debut album, see my review somewhere else in this blog, is rightly labeled as a classic album. It has a good mix of The Beatles and folk rock.

The follow up album, and it is not a live album despite of the cover art-work, follows in the same footpath.

Some of The Beatles with a lot of the local genre Tropicalia and psych rock.

There are also some weirdness and humour here on this forty odd minutes long album.

The sound is psych and so is the music. Tropical psych.

The songs are all decent to good. It is not on par with their debut album. It is still worth checking out as this band to me seems to be a great band. I will find out more as I am reviewing most of their albums now.

2.5 points

 



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