Liberation

's sole album is an odd, unbalanced affair that doesn't have enough ideas or songs to really merit a full-length release, even as it betrays sporadic hints of quirky imagination. There's -styled ( ), -like - ), rambling morbid bluesy instrumental jamming (including a six-minute wordless version of with hauntingly sad harmonica), and a arrangement of 's Weirdest of all is a repeated -sounding that's actually rather catchy, but seems more suited for the of a movie like than a late-'60s underground LP. Weirder still, the motif is repeated four times in varying arrangements over the course of the album, twice in full-length versions, and twice as briefer interludes. It's not an offensively bad record by any means, but it's not noteworthy as either or off-the-wall strangeness. ~ Richie Unterberger