spontaneous combustion

...two great LPs from an eager bunch of teens who decided to get down with the new emerging prog form of rock, the musicianly melding of hard blues rock with jazz and left over psych and smoothed out to accommodate student audiences (the longer the genre lasts the more smoothed and sonambalistic it becomes) but in the interesting years of 69/70 spontaneous combustion got some major label studio time to record their sound...the heavy thud of primal blues prog has been lightened but the stretching out of jazz has been turned into young fireball enthusiasm to go with the flow, to get in the wind...the sound of opening up the music is felt as a breath of fresh air, a new dawn as the decades change and more teens are turned on by 'underground sounds'...stop start riffing hardish prog, swaggering its way into existence, looking for the way forward, these are two wonderful albums that sadly were their only foray, but amply prove they could have been contenders, but maybe things are better this way, the legend they leave behind is unsullied, the name is not tarnished by lame triple albums about hobbits (unlikely as that would have been in their cae but a cat can never be sure, the lurking dread is always just below the surface in the progressive rock universe, a planet where all manner of sound atrocities become flesh)...recommended listening for all interested parties...cats with an yearn for trivia will need to know this came in an inside out trick/gimmick sleeve and all three cats got to be on the front individually...this divisive action by the suits no doubt hastened their early demise from the scene...ho hum...
...combust...