The debut album from this artist from Great Britain.
Syd Barrett did the guitars and vocals here.
He had help from a number of guests who added drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and horns.
Syd Barrett's life is without any doubt one of the most tragic stories in the history of popular music. Once a leading member of Pink Floyd, drug use and mental illness destroyed what could have been a great career in music and robbed the world of some great music.
The recording of this album is also well known. The session included members of Pink Floyd and The Soft Machine. The latter band were not aware that they were recording this album.
Syd Barrett recorded two albums before he became seriously mentally ill and then lived a life in obscurity before passing on in July 2006. I will review his second and final album next month.
The Madcap Laughs is clocking in at close to forty minutes.
Most of the music is Syd Barrett on vocals and acoustic guitars. The music is folk rock with some psych rock influences.
There is one pretty good song here in the form of the only single from this album.. Octopus. The rest of the songs are suffering from some dubious vocals and guitars.
If anyone other than Syd Barrett had released this album, it would have been at best, forgotten. At worst, never released. Taking into account his vital role in the breakthrough of Pink Floyd and his later tragic life, it is difficult to judge this album in an objective manner.
There is some decent stuff here and this is a decent enough album. And I am probably (too) kind to award it a decent album award.
2 points
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