Group founded from the remains of UK psych combo Blossom Toes. Guitarist Brian Godding and basssist Brian Belshaw teamed up with former BT drummer Kevin Westlake and recorded this LP. With addition of Julie Driscoll doing some of the vocals and work by studio wizz George Chkiantz the set-up was very promising. But it didn't fly and after some bad reveiws and low sales the group broke up later same year. Nothing wrong with the numbers, some of them are really good, like "Sticky Living" and "Seed", and there's lots of fine guitars and a few interesting psych passages. But obviously there were problems with production and mixing. Two or three of the tracks comes through very fine, but most of it sounds unbalanced with added reverb and vocals mixed too low. I hear constructed and artificial and miss the spunk and the connection. I'm surprised Chkiantz was part of that end result, but maybe he had a bad day. It's a pity - with better handeling it could have been a classic. 1971 releases also in Germany, with same label and number, and US on Polydor (24-4060). Re-issue on Decal "New Day" (LIK 48) as "Blossom Toes '70 (Formerly B.B. Blunder)". First UK had label as shown here and thick matt fold/out cover.
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