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Living on the hill : a Danish underground trip 1967-1974


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AllMusic

2020

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Timothy Monger

2020

"Best of 2020" - "Championed by prominent eccentrics like John Peel and Julian Cope, Denmark's underground rock movement was a particularly fertile one, producing an array of challenging acts like Young Flowers, Ache, and Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, all of whom get their due on Cherry Red's excellent Living on the Hill: A Danish Underground Trip 1967-1974. As with all the British label's archival sets, the scene's major and minor players are exhumed and copiously annotated".


Louder than war

d. 27. Oct. 2020

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Ian Canty

d. 27. Oct. 2020

"Living On The Hill worked for me as a good introduction to Danish progressive music, a scene I wasn't really that much aware of prior to listening. There's a good variety of sound and it is carried off with a breeziness that means even the excessively long tracks pass without getting too dull. There is plenty of life and talent on display and one thing the Danish bands heard here all seem to possess is a genuine sense of explorative fun - there's no cleverness for the sake of it or showing off, which does work very much in their favour.The sleeve notes in the accompanying booklet do a good job of cluing the reader into the bands, most of which will be unfamiliar to anyone but prog crate diggers ... With all restrictions removed, they blast off into space on this collection in a novel and energetic wayʺ.



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