Amon Düül II acrimoniously split in 1973 and during this rift, part of the band went to record the eventual Wolf City album while bassist Lothar Meid formed Utopia with keyboardist Jimmy Jackson and began on this album. Eventually, band members reconciled and ended up playing on both records. The Utopia album by is a strange, one-off detour into spacey glam, heavy psych, and theatrical heavy rock. The band leans into a looser, more playful vibe than the Amon Düül II’s darker, more cerebral output and it’s a very cool, oddball piece of krautrock history.
Original 1973 German pressing on United Artists Records and it’s absolutely primo.
Comments
Post a Comment