Album review: THE COSMIC TRIP ADVISORS – Wrong Again Albert (2 CDs)

THE COSMIC TRIP ADVISORS - Wrong Again Albert

Bad Reputation France [Release date 09.04.21]

Here’s an interesting tale to tell. Rock band, The Cosmic Trip Advisors fly from native Scotland to a “fancy ass” studio in Sweden to record an album, to be done in double quick time. The band are not young whippersnappers, they are (ahem) well worn experienced musicians.

They want to release it on vinyl, so the next step is to convince 90 of their fans to stump up £20 for an advance order (in fact to order several months in advance), and they offer various inducements such as a hand numbered signed copy or even a namecheck credit on the album cover. This is how it is in COVID life 2020.

Well, happily they managed to sell out the first vinyl production run of 500, and subsequently another run thereafter. It keeps selling ! Just then a long forgotten rehearsal tape was re-discovered, and the idea ignited to release it as a double CD, the original together with this live run through where the red record button was on “play”.

The band describe it as what it would have sounded like at a keg party done in one hour, six months later – ie no second takes, no cheats, no overdubs.

Put an album cover together with a beautiful Tanya Shatseva painting and “bingo” !

And if you like that heavy rock Hammond based sound, with more than a tinge of Vanilla Fudge era type psychedelia, this could be for you.

“Shy and Retiring” vocalist Lesley McGonnal is very remisicent of Debbie Bonham, and that’s a compliment ! Debbie Bonham (John’s sister) fronts a similarly heavy ass kicking sound.

The Cosmic Trip advisors are a very good band (a great live experience too). Prior to this album it’s well worth checking out their covers of Blind Faith’s ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ and Merle Haggard’s ‘Sing Me Back Home’.

You won’t find 1M views for any of their online content. In fact you won’t find more than 300 sometimes, but if you’re a sucker for that classic rock organ-based sound give it a try ! ***1/2

Review by Iain McGonigal

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