Saint Etienne – Good Humor [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic ” or Ritchie Blackmore on

” or Ritchie Blackmore on Made in Japan – two early influences Kurihara mentions in particular - but you’ve never been in a recording studio before

The overall impression I'm left with is a very calculated sound collage that still feels like the sonic equivalent of a deep epiphany

the languid trudge of ‘Burn Clear’ could be be a Flying Nun 7”

was deemed too radical by the BBC

soft focus clouds of hazy static drift over smoldering chordal swells

Saint Etienne – Good Humor [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic ” or Ritchie Blackmore on"Recorded at Tambourine studios in Malmo, Sweden, Good Humor has a soft, earthy, sixties leaning sound. Every track was hard candy, three minute pop, and could have been a single. As it was, Sylvie and The Bad Photographer were both UK Top 30 hits, and this album became the groups best seller in the States." Heavenly, 2023