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Comus down like a movie star
To Keep from Crying is the second album by progressive folk band Comus, released in 1974. It featured a notably different lineup from their other releases, with the violin/viola and woodwind spots replaced by keyboards and a conventional drum kit. The album's content has also been noted as sounding more mainstream than their earlier work, which centred more in conventional progressive rock and folk.
Contents
- Comus down like a movie star
- Comus touch down waves and caves
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Additional musicians
- Songs
- References
Comus touch down waves and caves
Reception
Allmusic's retrospective review praised the vocal arrangements and male/female harmonies of songs such as "Figure in Your Dreams" and "Perpetual Motion", and were even more endeared to "dark folk songs" such as "Touch Down", with its "ghostly children's chorus" and "cosmic synth tones". However, they criticized the Japanese issue of the album for editing "Waves and Caves" and "After the Dream" down to well under a minute each and concluded "The record is pretty good, but it has the misfortune of paling in the shadow of its nightmarish predecessor."
Track listing
All tracks written by Roger Wootton, except where noted.
Personnel
Additional musicians
Songs
1Down (Like a Movie Star)4:01
2Touch Down4:39
3Waves and Caves1:36