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The Way We Live / Tractor - A Candle For Judith & Tractor (1994)

Posted By: popsakov
The Way We Live / Tractor - A Candle For Judith & Tractor (1994)

The Way We Live & Tractor - A Candle For Judith & Tractor (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 524 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 215 Mb
Full Scans | 01:18:08 | RAR 5% Recovery
Psychedelic Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock | See For Miles Records #SEECD 409

The Way We Live wasn't a terribly commercial or compelling name for a rock band, and Tractor is a yet more awkward and less appealing moniker. Yet, for some reason, that's what the Way We Live changed their name to between the 1971 A Candle for Judith album (which turned out to be the only the Way We Live LP) and their 1972 follow-up, Tractor. Both albums are combined onto one CD on this 1994 reissue by See For Miles. A Candle for Judith was uneven, second-division, early-'70s British hippie rock, divided between lumpy, bluesy hard rock and far folkier, pastoral, acoustic-flavored musings. The folk-rockier stuff is better than the harder-rocking stuff, with "Squares" strongly recalling the folkiest, most acoustic outings of the early Pink Floyd.

The Way We Live - A Candle For Judith (1971) [Japanese Edition 2009] (Re-up)

Posted By: gribovar
The Way We Live - A Candle For Judith (1971) [Japanese Edition 2009] (Re-up)

The Way We Live - A Candle For Judith (1971) [Japanese Edition 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 506 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 188 MB | Covers (7 MB) included
Genre: Progressive/Psychedelic/Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Air Mail Archive (AIRAC-1526)

The first time Dandelion label head John Peel heard the Way We Live, courtesy of a demo tape they mailed him, he thought someone was playing a trick on him - some accomplished superstar band, perhaps. Only when he actually met the duo did he discover that they really were as good as their demo insisted, and A Candle for Judith - itself comprising exactly the same songs as that original tape - allows the listener to share in Peel's amazement. Eight tracks find the band drifting across the musical spectrum, sometimes heavy (the opening "King Dick II" sounds almost Sabbath-like), sometimes folky, but never less than fascinating. Comparisons to Pink Floyd, one of the few bands to exercise similar disparate energies over the course of one album, are misleading, however. Although the closing "The Way Ahead" could be allied with certain passages in "Echoes," there is no space rock, or distorted blues in sight here, just a series of ambitiously complex and supremely melodic numbers that marked The Way We Live (the name under which the LP was originally issued) as one of the most remarkable bands of the early-'70s era.