Stray - Stray (1970)

Year: June 1970 (CD ????)
Label: Castle Music (UK), CMRCD 1203
Style: Rock, Hard Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 65:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 464 Mb

Amazing hard rock from the UK. Don't Believe me ask metal legend Steve Harris who is a big fan of the group. All in Your Mind which the mighty Iron Maiden would later cover is an amazing Proto-Metal song with blistering twin guitar. Around the World in Eighty Days is Pure Hard Rock bliss, Move On Kills, but to me the show stealer is the closing track In Reverse/Some Day. A must have for Fans of Hard Rock and Metal.
(rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stray/stray/) Review by Moviebluff88. Jan 04 2012
While Stray wouldn't always give us amazing records, their debut is certainly one of them. While essentially performing busy, proggy heavy guitar rock, this is a band blessed with inventive arrangement ideas and the energy to execute them with flair. Check out "In Reverse/Some Say," which has everything from dual guitar lines, minor chord progressions ala Sabbath, and galloping pacing to boot. Same goes for "All In Your Mind," although the powerfully pulsing, shorter "Only What You Make It" is just as groovy, only in a less expansive manner. There really isn't a bad track on this record, and the sound kind of reminds of Bang, as while the band don't try overtly hard to be heavy, it just seems to come out of the music anyway. Really one of the best seventies.
(rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stray/stray/) Review by cirithungol. Jul 17 2007
This is a fantastic album that must be considered as one the most representative albums of the heavy psych genre. "All in Your Mind" jump starts the Stray's career on an extremely high note (maybe the highest they ever got) and sends the listener to a place somewhere in between Black Sabbath's debut and Vincebus Eruptum but contains more raw energy than both of those. The vocals should also be noted as rather Beatle-esque especially come "Around the World in Eighty Days" and "Yesterday's Promises." The Stray's first album perfects a sound that was only around for one or two (maybe three) years and should be viewed at as a landmark of heavy psych as well as the entire psychedelic or even heavy rock genre.
(rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stray/stray/) Review by coldchisel. Jul 28 2007

01. All In Your Mind (09:21)
02. Taking All The Good Things (05:30)
03. Around The World In Eighty Days (03:37)
04. Time Machine (04:41)
05. Only What You Can Make It (04:00)
06. Yesterday's Promises (04:19)
07. Move On (05:46)
08. In Reverse/Some Say (09:01)
09. Change You Mind (bonus) (05:11)
10. The Man Who Paints The Pictures (bonus) (02:33)
11. In The Night (bonus) (02:59)
12. Outcast (bonus) (04:01)
13. All In Your Mind (bonus Single Version) (04:00)

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