"The love and peace thing, it was very weak. It didn't have any teeth, and you wanted to give it a kick."

This is Roger Wootton of the gloriously demented band Comus on their early songs. The quote is drawn from Jeanette Leach's piece "Comus Wakes, He Starts To Play..." that appears in the recent (and recommended) Shindig! Presents Witches Hats & Painted Chariots - The Incredible String Band and the 5,000 Layers of Psychedelic Folk Music (2013).

I can almost take it as a given that by mid-2013 everyone who should have heard Comus' First Utterance (1971) has heard it, but on the off chance you've not fallen under its mischievous and murderous spell, it comes recommended as one of my all-time favorite albums.