The Soft Machine (1968)
Experimental, psychedelic “art” rock that gave the intellectuals in the audience something to chew on until prog arrived.
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[Review] The Soft Machine: Volume Two (1969)
The second installment of their psychedelic jazz circus and first to feature fuzz-bass extraordinaire Hugh Hopper.
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Soft Machine: Third (1970)
Their third, divided into four, equals pure joy as it explores jazz-rock fusion from the perspective of rock.
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[Review] Robert Wyatt: The End of an Ear (1970)
You probably won’t lose your hearing, although brain damage is a risk on Wyatt’s first.
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[Review] Soft Machine: Fourth (1971)
The purely instrumental Fourth, and last to feature Robert Wyatt, contains longer and shorter works in the same vein as Third.
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[Review] Soft Machine: Faces and Places Vol. 7 (1972)
Demo recordings with the original quartet featuring Daevid Allen from the spring of 1967.
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[Review] Soft Machine: 5 (1972)
Ratledge and company tweak the machine with a couple of new drummers, with mixed results.
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Soft Machine: Six (1973)
Remember when the new release of a double-album from Soft Machine would have warranted skipping school? Those days are gone.
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[Review] Soft Machine: Seven (1973)
Soft Machine’s seventh features soporific melodies and weird saxophone sounds.
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Soft Machine: Bundles (1975)
The group finally gets a guitarist, and what a guitarist they got. Woodchuck.
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