Away With Meloncholy [Digipak] - Natural Yogurt Band (The)

Advantages: taste, texture, scent, price
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...at how faint, yet demanding its purity seemed. My sense of smell was awakened straight away, yet not alerted too harshly by this natural scent. Thankfully, this tempted me further into finding out exactly what I was dealing with. I peeled back the lid all the way. I peered inside the pot eagerly. Before me was an incredibly fresh looking, pure white yoghurt. I was quite taken aback by just how 'clean looking' it was! I've had some natural yoghurts which have been quite murky, but this was far from! I was so eager to try it now, it was unreal! I plucked my teaspoon from the rack and sat down, gazing into the pot. With one spoon, my spoon was piled high with the immaculate yoghurt. I flew it into my mouth and concentrated as it landed smoothly on my tongue. The cool texture was much thicker than I had imagined, a delicious coating spread... Read review

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Advantages: A Few Of Good Tracks
Disadvantages: Nowhere Near The Same Degree Of Quality As Their Earlier Work

...Pink and The Band, but it turns out to be more of a mash of images and strange events. For me this really sums up the drop in lyrical quality that really does make this one of my least favourite albums by The Band. 8. Georgia On My Mind ***** Despite this being a cover, it is for me easily the best track on the album, doing away with some of the poor production and instrumental backing on the other tracks and creating more of a piece of music rather than simply a track. The vocal sails through the piece with an almost anthem-like ambling that very slowly builds to a slight crescendo at its conclusion. This for me does feel very much like a track created outside the bounds of this album, with a more focused arrangement and vocal line that creates a piece of beauty. 9. Knockin' Lost John ***** Following the heights of the previous track... Read review

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Advantages: Great Tracks Throughout, In A Different Style To Their Others
Disadvantages: A Few More Bonus Tracks Would Have Been Nice

...In the album catalogue of The Band, Stage Fright is often seen as their third best album behind their two previous releases, and that is a far assessment, but in my opinion it is an album that is so different from their previous records that it is quite a difficult one to judge against their others. As an album, it has to be one of my favourite albums by The Band to listen to, but then I have always enjoyed the more rock based style that they take on here. And this is what makes this album so different to Music From Big Pink and The Band (The Brown Album), as it doesn?t contain some of their more folk/roots backing, instead moving into more guitar, piano and drums, which isn?t a bad thing, as they are equally as adept at this as they are at the backing used on their previous albums. The title of the album and some of the lyrics within... Read review

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