"A Heavy Dose Of Lyte Psych" focuses on the more melodic and well-produced material. The best (and best-sounding) act here is the Gurus (who are also represented on the front cover), identified as five collegiate music majors from New York, who have a muscular yet melodic attack on their instruments. The Misty Wizards' "It's Love" is spacy fun, with electric sitar noodling over ethereal singing, and the Capes of Good Hopes' "Lady Margaret" offers some catchy hooks over engaging folk-rock-style rhythm guitar and lead guitar noodling.
There are some real surprises here as well, like "Brink of Death" by Childe Harold, a New York outfit produced by Walter Carlos, complete with orchestral accompaniment, eerie sound effects, and a pleasantly dissolute mood broken by some lively hard-rocking passages -- kind of like the Rolling Stones' "In Another Land." One number designated as a "Mystery Track," cut sometime in 1968 in Boston, apparently cut for a low-budget exploitation film, does sound like a lost Jefferson Airplane number circa After Bathing At Baxters. The sound is surprisingly good throughout, and producer Erik Lindgren has provided fairly thorough notes.
by Bruce Eder
Artist - Tracks
1. No Artist - Bonus Track - 0:25
2. Misty Wizards - It's Love - 2:09
3. Capes Of Good Hopes - Lady Margaret - 2:39
4. Freeborne - Land Of Diana - 2:58
5. Id - The Rake - 2:02
6. Tea Company - Flowers - 3:18
7. Truth - P.S. (Prognosis Stegnoisis) - 3:11
8. Ballroom - Baby Please Don't Go - 3:07
9. Teddy And His Patches - Haight Ashbury - 2:51
10.Picture - Evolution - 4:23
11.The Gurus - It Just Won't Be That Way - 2:21
12.Mongrels - Good Good Man - 2:19
13.Wildflowers - More Than Me - 2:57
14.Chris Carpenter - This World (Is Closing In On Me) - 2:49
15.Childe Harold - Brink Of Death - 3:30
16.JK And Co. - Fly - 4:40
17.Masada - A Hundred Days And Nights - 4:37
18.Crescent Six - And Then - 2:43
19.Attic Sound - Look Straight Through You - 2:20
20.White Room - Thoughts Of Yesterday - 2:06
21.Chimps - Fifth Class Mail - 4:26
22.Chris Carpenter - Waterfalls - 2:11
23.Fourth Way - The Far Side Of Your Mind - 2:51
24.Unknown Artist - Mystery Track - 7:46
25.Rock Revival - Venus 2038 - 2:30
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