Inner Dialogue cd

cd
2012/1970
new
Amazingly retarded late 60s east coast harmony lite-psych. Basically an attempt to be a hip/intellectual version of the Lennon Sisters, but where other such bands (e.g. the Free Design) at least kept the sunshiney vibes, this record is a total quaalude-chomping downer. Two girls who sang, plus an Italian guy with the presence of a serial killer who plays the 'dulcitron' & piano. They didn't have any original songs to break into the big time with, so they hired a jingle writer for Pepsi to whip up lyrics for them. The lyricist turned out to be really obsessed with Freudian psychology and zen, and so you get songs littered with tense 11th chords, qwavering vibrato vocals, & dated psychobabble in equal measure. Lots of pitch shifting & then shifting back (which is, I'm pretty sure, how they invented that dulcitron). Standout cut has got to be the accidentally rape-themed 'The Touch'. Tracklisting: I Go To Life, Inner Dialogue, The Touch, Yesterday the Dog, Little Bits of Paper, Little Children, Within You, In Sequence, Look At Me, Doctor Man, Get Aboard a Dream, Now You See It Now You Don't.