The Mops, Iijanaika 1971 (vinyl record)

Artist (band): The Mops Album name: Iijanaika Year: 1971 Genre: hard rock, heavy psychedelic rock Country: Japan Duration: 39 minutes In no other work, the Tokyo group The Mops did not achieve such rigidity, clarity and coherence, as in its third album Iijanaika. The basis of the record is a downhill and very high quality hard rock on a solid blues foundation, while the traction riff of the Town Where I Was Born could well be on the album of Black Sabbath of those years (the vocal style is of course very far from Ozzy). Well done dramatic ballad Nobody Cares, as well as mid-tempo To My Sons with a piercing solo pipe. The only thing made in the typical for Mops jam manner - Gekko Kamen (Moonlight Mask), it is the only one on the album performed in Japanese (the rest - in English). After the heavy blues No One Knows That They Were the CD ends with Alone’s almost symphonic prodigy in orchestral processing ...