Can’s second album is basically a collection of tracks they recorded for use in a handful of indie movies around 1969-70. While that doesn’t sound like a very exciting prospect for most bands, Can are anything but typical.
Things get, and stay interesting with tracks like “Tango Whiskeyman” and “Don’t Turn The Lights On…” highlight which are some of the first with eccentric legend Damo Suzuki. “Soul Desert” and “She Brings The Rain” which features the one of a kind Malcolm Mooney too. It’s interesting to hear these last couple of tracks before Mooney departed the band to deal with his own personal issues. The real centerpiece here though, is the Damo Suzuki fronted “Mother Sky”! Literally one of the greatest tracks ever recorded! For an odds and sods album, it’s one of the best there is.
2014 US reissue on Spoon Records/Mute. Nearly all of my Can albums are from this reissue campaign as I got into them in the early 2000s and could never find their stuff in the wild. They do sound fantastic, so I’m good with it.
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