"Featuring their hits "Bend Me, Shape Me" and "Gin House Blues," Amen Corner's debut album (the group's sole album for DERAM) was the work of a band who didn't either really fit into any of the trends of the late '60s. They offered an accomplished mix of blue-eyed soul-rock and British pop. Built around the distinctive high vocals of Andy Fairweather Low, they also had (unlike most British bands) a horn section, as well as a distinguished instrumentalist in organist Blue Weaver. They ripped through straight-ahead blue-eyed soul like "Our Love (Is In The Pocket)" with flair, and "Something You Got" was almost like a U.K. equivalent to Stax deep soul ballads. It offered barely any original material, a shame as a couple of Fairweather Low-penned B-sides showed the kind of psychedelic pop-influenced writing more akin to a band like late-'60s Small Faces. Fortunately, this CD added those B-sides, "Nema" and "I Know," as bonus tracks, along with two other cuts from 1967-1968 singles." (Richie Unterberger, Allmusic)
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