Locomotive - We Are Everything You See

Locomotive - We Are Everything You See - 1970

 

By Richie Unterberger from Allmusic

Locomotive's only album was an oddball piece of second-tier British psychedelia, stuck somewhere between psych and progressive rock, and mixing in a lot of soul music, a good deal of jazz, and a bit of classical. In those respects, they were similar to Traffic and Family, though putting more emphasis on soul music. The influences didn't cohere as well as they did in Traffic and Family, though, and the material wasn't nearly as effective.

Of-the-day traits like swirling organ, fishbowl-distorted vocals, and phased drumming provided the freakiest elements, along with the band's liking for throwing in jazzy tempo changes. Melodically and lyrically, Locomotive were uncommonly grim for a late-'60s British psychedelic band, and there was a touch of Procol Harum in the vague tormented metaphysical questing of some of their lyrics and vocals. It's a reflection of their relatively inaccessible original material that the most memorable song is their cover of the United States of America's "Coming Down/Love Song for the Dead Che," an imaginative choice, considering the original must have been barely known in Britain at that time.

   
01. Overture
02. Mr. Armageddon
03. Now Is the End-The End Is When
04. Lay Me Down Gently
05. Haines
06. Nobody Asked You to Come
07. You Must Be Joking
08. A Day in Shining Armour
09. The Loves of Augustus Abbey - Part One
10. Rain    
11. The Loves of Augustus Abbey - Part Two
12. Coming Down/Love Song for the Dead Ché
13. The Loves of Augustus Abbey, Part Three
14. Time of Light and Darkness
15. Mr. Armageddon [Mono Single Version]
16. There's Got to Be a Way
17. I'm Never Gonna Let You Go
18. You Must Be Joking [Mono Single Version]
19. Movin' Down the Line
20 Roll Over Mary


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