To Keep from Crying explained

To Keep from Crying
Type:Album
Artist:Comus
Cover:Comus_Crying.jpg
Released:1974
Recorded:1973–1974
Genre:Psychedelic folk, progressive rock, progressive folk
Label:Virgin, Dawn
Producer:Roger Chapman
Prev Title:First Utterance
Prev Year:1971
Next Title:Out of the Coma
Next Year:2012

To Keep from Crying is the second album by progressive folk band Comus, released in 1974. It featured a notably different lineup from their other releases, with the violin/viola and woodwind spots replaced by keyboards and a conventional drum kit. The album's content has also been noted as sounding more mainstream than their earlier work, which centred more in conventional progressive rock and folk.[1]

Reception

Allmusic's retrospective review praised the vocal arrangements and male/female harmonies of songs such as "Figure in Your Dreams" and "Perpetual Motion", and were even more endeared to "dark folk songs" such as "Touch Down", with its "ghostly children's chorus" and "cosmic synth tones". However, they criticized the Japanese issue of the album for editing "Waves and Caves" and "After the Dream" down to well under a minute each and concluded "The record is pretty good, but it has the misfortune of paling in the shadow of its nightmarish predecessor."

Personnel

Additional musicians

Notes and References

  1. Joynson, Vernon (1995). The Tapestry of Delights . London: Borderline Books.