I do appreciate well done recordings where I can be carried and embraced by skilled professionals, but also strangely drawn to the really dirty stuff where the feeling is more like being hit by an ill-functioning steamroller. This is one of those (eng. title "Out In Our Meadow"). Gudibrallan (eng. God in the trousers) was an anarchist band sprung from the student movement in Uppsala 1968. Though in a way left-wing they were never tied to the communist community and their lyrics more mocking than reasoning, heckling about everything from left to right. This was their first album of two, which also became the first issue on the independent Silence label - recorded and mixed in one day and released two weeks later. I've seen it tagged as garage rock, kraut, psych, prog or pre-punk. Guess all of those would fit, but to choose one I'd go with early punk rock. "Hej Gud" ("Hey God"), a cover of "Hey Joe", is live from some student party and "Oscar" sounds like one guy playing with his tape recorder at home, coming out muddy and distorted. But the rest is loud rock/blues-adjacent played live in the studio with a devil-may-care attitude. Not always in tune or balance though well kept together with lots of power and a fair share of mean guitars. Lyrics are in Swedish, but some of it coming out more as chants or screams, some hardly audible and others badly pronounced, so I just hear the voices as functioning parts of the big picture, significant or not. This was a Swedish only release. Very first with red rear sleeve, from 1971 and on changed to white. 2017 record store day vinyl re-issue on Silence with same number. Never released like this on CD, but the 1995 compilation "T-Doja" (Silence SRSCD 3601) had five cuts in common. Premiere vinyl had label as shown here, heavy unflexible vinyl and thin glossy cover. (SCÄ*) (CCÖ*) (NÅY*) (ÖGÄ*)
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