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Blessed Light are gentle hippies and soft-rock traditionalists, and this record could have come straight out of the early 1970s. It's mostly mid-tempo guitar pop with flavors of blues ("My Beloved", "Battlefield Figurine"), country ("Texas Songbird"), and mild psychedelia. In their better moments, they remind me of Teenage Fanclub, Archer Prewitt, or George Harrison; at other times, unfortunately, they bring to mind Pink Floyd or Eric Clapton. I suppose the positive outweighs the negative here, and the band is certainly proficient, so if this is your bag then you might like this more than I did --- personally I found the album mostly uninspiring and it didn't really hook me until the next-to-last track, "Angel of the Air", with its ripping guitar. And call me narrow, but I just can't bring myself to embrace a band whose vocabulary includes the blues lick. (mike.09.04)
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