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No matter what kind of sounds Can were working with they alw

Aquarius Records | San Francisco | 08/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"By this point a history lesson on Can is probably not needed as their importance to the last 25 years of underground and not so underground music and their incredible musical legacy has been quite well documented. And we're pretty excited about the recent renewed interest in Can resulting in the remastering and re-releasing of much of their back catalog. The aptly titled Delay was recorded in the late '60s with Malcom Mooney on vocals. This is a way more stripped down, raw, proto-punk Can then maybe most folks are used to. Recorded around the same time as White Light/White Heat this shares the same blistering spirit that The Velvet Underground were exploring across the sea. We've no doubt mentioned Can as a huge influence on so many AQ favorites: Circle, No Neck Blues Band, Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, Radiohead, Tortoise, on and on and on.... but listening to Delay you begin to think that Can may just out-rock them all. A year or so before The Stooges would hit the scene, Can were already displaying such raw emotion and all out rock exuberance, that the world couldn't help but be awed (if they'd heard it). Delay once again demonstrates that no matter what kind of sounds Can were working with they always managed to find the emotional core, and let it seep into every bit of music they made."

Perhaps the best Can album and possibly the best of the sixt

strump | Bloch Lake, USA | 03/25/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Delay 1968" --- titled as such because it's release was delayed --- I suppose they held on to it until the rest of us caught up to what they were doing here.



The album is a collection of the band's first recordings which featured their most interesting vocalist, American singer Malcolm Mooney.



Originally these songs were slated to be the band's first album which was to be called "Prepared To Meet Thy PNOOM". But nobody was prepared to meet this PNOOM. So they recorded a more "commercial" album that would end up becoming their first offical release entitled "Monster Movie". And, as you might have guessed, it's impossible to see any commercial difference between the two. Both feature Malcolm Mooney and both kick against the fashion of the rock music of the day while setting the agenda for the coming decades. (Radiohead recently covered "Thief" some 30 odd years later).



The Malcolm Mooney Can is my personal choice of the best period of this excellent, restless, influential, and wide ranging band. And this, for me, is the best release from that period. So much so that I think it's quite possibly the best album of the sixties --- and yes, I'm aware the Beatles had a release the year before that many consider the best album of all time. But, I must say that I'll take Can.

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