LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Digipack CD. "

In the late Sixties, following the huge success of the Doors, record labels searched for the next big thing in psychedelia. They had minor hits with the Seeds and Love, but they still were looking for more. The frenzy was much like that in the late 1970s or early 1990s when almost anything new wave/punk (70s) or pop-punk/grunge (90s) was given a serious once over by the majors. Just as then , the late 60s saw a lot of one-off LPs by bands who never quite made it out of their hometown or commune. One of those bands was the Glass Family. This album starts right off with a killer track "House of Glass" with dirty vocals, distorted acid guitar and swirling organ and it keeps on rocking, the songs are varied, some blues, some folk rock ballads and it ends with a remarkable instrumental. The cover shows the three man band in front of a house with "family" members all over the place, a reference to the commune hippie lifestyle of this time"