Pisces Are A Lovely Sight

Numero Records is one heck of a label. This group of avid music geeks dig through all the dusty music you're afraid to, in an effort to find hidden gems that haven't been heard in eons or even at all. Establishing themselves as one of the premier reissue labels for ultra-rare soul music they've begun to spread their wings out and release other things. One of their more recent finds has been the 1969 recording of A Lovely Sight by Pisces.

Just about unknown to everyone including themselves this group of psychedelic troubadours were creating atmospheric music 20 years before it was cool. Taking a folk template and adding reverb, echo, twisted guitars, organs, sighed vocals, and a certain degree of pop sensibility Pisces wonder through the galaxy sounding something like a tripped out Paul Revere and the Raiders meets Peter Paul and Mary. It's a strange record that occasionally falls flat on it's face, but more often then not captures something magical. "Like A Whole In The Wall Where The Rat Lives," for example, is a slice of psychedelic jangly pop heaven that's so paisley coloured it'll blind you.

I'm not sure of how Numero found these guys but I'm glad they did. Listening to A Lovely Sightis like listening to an undiscovered part of history that no ever had the chance to experience. Pisces are a surprisingly great band that probably had big aspirations and wound up lost in the winds of change. A Lovely Sightis a fantastic record of psychedelic freak outs and spacey strums that are ideal for tuning in and dropping out and one would assume that they probably did during the recording of this record.

Classic rock doesn't sound like this any more! This is true classicrock and a piece of history worth investigating. Numero group have proven themselves the great archivists of rare and undiscovered music. Like much of their collection Pisces' A Lovely Sight is an essential purchase.