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Title: Long overdue reissue of a beautifully strange pop album
Review: Here's another great, overlooked art-school-rock classic finally released on CD. It's full of Ayers' odd lyrics and twisted tunes, and features a host of former Soft Machine mates and Island Records chums getting together to make some loopy, off-kilter rock'n'roll. Ayers' dark vision might be mistaken for depression in songs like "Don't Let It Get You Down" and "Shouting In a Bucket Blues," but it's always redeemed by a sense of humor and wit ("When Your Parents Go To Sleep" and "Interview."). The bonus tracks include "Caribbean Moon," which had been available on the 1973 U.S. vinyl release. Fans of Soft Machine may be disappointed; this is rock, not jazz. Along with his marvelous 1974 album "Confessions of Doctor Dream," this is some of the Seventies' most chic and sophisticated pop, as well as its most underrated.
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