Peter Hammill - Fool's Mate

Charisma CASCD1037. 1971

Another NF introduction - cheers buddy.

He sounds a bit posh, but has a pleasant voice none the less. I heard this long before I'd heard any VdGG, so had no idea who he was.

It was the crazy drums at the start of Imperial Zeppelin that grabbed me from the off. Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of the album shifts into much more straight-forward singer-songwriter territory after the, frankly, crackers start.

I don't have a great deal to compare this to, as there's not much else on my shelves that sound quite like it.

The only real low-point is the dreadful Vikings. Cack.

"Aaaaah - it's so imperial!"

"And I don't feel quite like dying......"