Instrumental, Swedish vocals
International relevance: ***
The history's full of albums that have
become legendary in their absence. The fewer that have heard an
unreleased album, the better it gets in the imagination of those who
haven't. Only rarely, albums like that can live up to the
expectations.
Recorded in 1973 and 1974, the
recordings subsequently released as ”Delayed” was meant for a
follow up to Älgarnas Trädgård's highly regarded debut ”Framtiden
är ett svävande skepp förankrat i forntiden” from 1972. During
the mixing sessions for the album, cracks began to show within the
band which led to them disbanding before the work was done, leaving
the recordings unfinished until 2001 when Silence finally released it
on CD with its appropriate album title.
If ”Framtiden är ett svävande
skepp” was spacey, ”Delayed” is much less abstract with only
”My Childhood Trees” reminiscent of the debut. ”Delayed” is
heavier in a more typical contemporary prog rock fashion.
Unfortunately, when members Dan Söderqvist and Jan Ternald mixed it
for the posthumous release, they added tons of reverb which make the
album sound more anachronistic than I believe it would have if
released as originally projected. I don't think the music is
particularly good to begin with, but it would have been better if
given a drier mix. Now it's still something of a lost album.
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