Often mistaken for an Italian band, thanks to their only album having been recording and released exclusively in that country, Analogy were in fact an almost fully German group, simply based in Milan. The style of music here is a kind of organ-heavy psychedelic rock, well stocked in stoned out atmosphere and blistering guitar. Thanks to the prominent female vocals, the band often evokes the later group Carol of Harvest, but a more accurate description would be a middle ground between other organ dominated German groups like Satin Whale and Murphy Blend and vicious Italian psych like Circus 2000. Musically, however, Analogy is probably less successful than any of the above, but nonetheless competent. Indeed, the album is one of those where, every once in a while, the bands hits on something really brilliant, but manages to pad these moments out with enough jammy filler so as to severely hamper the consistency of the album as a whole. The opening cut, "Dark Reflections" is a perfect example in and of itself. Whereas the verses are stunted by a dirge-y and frankly boring melody, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, vocalist Jutta Nienhaus belts out a simple, yet spellbinding chorus. This kind of frustration is typical throughout the album. To be frank, the lauded vocals of Nienhaus are more of an incomprehensible warble, generally fraught with some rather questionable intonation. The best song is easily the band’s namesake, "Analogy", a predominately instrumental psych-prog masterpiece rife with fantastic organ solos and surging guitar licks. On the whole, whereas Analogy is undoubtedly inconsistent, the great moments and the overall atmosphere do make this one worth having at some point for collectors of early progressive rock. - Greg Northrup [November 2002]
1. Dark Reflections - 7:00 2. Weeping May Endure - 4:50 3. Indian Meditation - 4:10 4. Tin’s Song - 1:40 5. Analogy - 9:45 6. The Year's At the Spring - 4:35 7. Pan-Am Flight - 5:15 Jutta Nienhaus - Vocals H.J. "Mops" Nienhaus - Drums Wolfgang Schoene - Bass Martin Thurn - Guitar, Flute, Bongos Nicola Pankoff - Keyboards