Stylus - Where In The World

This 1974 album by the 1970s Melbourne soul band takes a load of key ingredients of seventies soul, chucks them in a bowl, gives them a good old stir and comes up with a final product that just isn't moist or crumbly enough and has the cheesy tang of the working men's club showband.

I really want to like this, because Aussie, Aussie, Aussie etc, and I love music dug from the deepest, darkest corners, but...Jesus, their cover the Isley Brothers' version of Summer Breeze is an exercise in hubris, reminiscent of those white cover versions of rock n' roll songs in the 1950s by Pat Boone.

A couple of records by this band fetch reasonable amounts on the collectable soul scene, but that is no more an indication of quality than the bass player's 'fro is an indication of Pan-Africanism.

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