UK prog/psych rock band founded as Nova and after getting a contract with Transatlantic label 1969 changing their name to Jody Grind. Under the short time (1968-70) they existed there were already a number of member changes. On this, their second and last album, the setting was Tim Hinkley (who earlier had played with Mick Fleetwood in Bo Street Runners) on vocals, organ, piano and vibraphone, Bernie Holland (later in Hummingbird and Steelers Wheel) on vocals, bass and guitars and Pete Gavin (later in Heads Hands & Feet and Vinegar Joe) on drums. I've seen very differing reviews on it through the years - while some just love it others are a lot more reserved. I sure think it's an interesting piece of work with a lot of was going on in the rock world back then - prog, psych, baroque and hard rock. You get four vocal and four instrumental tracks, all penned by Hinkley and Holland. I'm not immediately falling in love with everything on it, but a couple of the tracks make my heart beat faster already at first listen - the ruthless live take "Plastic Shit" is hard riff driven rock with brilliant guitars, "Bath Sister" has an odd riff to good organ making it stick at once and "We've Had It" starting sweet with acoustic guitar and then slowly getting more intense. In all maybe not fully fledged, but if you're a lover of the rather wild genre blend that flourished at that time it's certainly worth a spin. 1970 issues also in Germany, Holland, France and Downunder. German 1996 CD on Green Tree Records (GTR-038) came with two bonus tracks. Premiere UK had label as shown here in a laminated cover.
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