Stray's second album Suicide opens up with distant melancholic vocals, which is then followed by some heavy guitar riffing and a mellotron blast. And there is your storyline for Suicide. Though there really isn't that much mellotron, but there's plenty of great guitar soloing, similar to the debut just a bit more restrained. Hard to imagine any album taking the guitar further than Stray's debut, at least for the time and place. There's a small hint on Suicide of the group's eventual move to boogie and there's a couple of other stylistic diversions. In aggregate though, Suicide remains an excellent album. These early Stray albums are not to be missed for psychedelic hard rock fans.
Ownership: LP: 1971 Transatlantic. Textured single sleeve. Pink letter label which Discogs shows as the original. For some reason I had it cataloged under the picture label, but clearly I didn't take the time to look closely. Anyway, all fixed now. Online acquisition (2013).
CD: 2006 Strange Days (Japan). Papersleeve edition. Comes in the Disc Union box (which uses the Saturday Morning Pictures cover) and includes their first three albums. This was my introduction to the album.
2/15/07; 12/31/10; 11/27/23 (new entry)
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