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First Utterance

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Artwork
Critical reception
Track listing
Personnel
Production
References
External links

{{Infobox album
| name = First Utterance
| type = studio
| artist = Comus
| cover = FirstUtterance.jpg
| released = 1971
| recorded = November–December 1970 at Pye Studios, London
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Psychedelic folk, progressive folk
| length = 49:17
| label = Dawn DNLS 3019
| producer = Barry Murray
| year = 1971
| next_title = To Keep from Crying
{{noitalics|(1974)}}
}}

First Utterance is the debut album of the progressive folk band Comus. It was released in 1971, with the opening song "Diana" being released as a single.

First Utterance was notable for its unique blend of progressive rock, folk, psychedelia, and elements of paganism and the macabre. The overall thematic tone of the album is of vulnerable innocence facing abusive power,^[1] with songs dealing with such themes as violence ("Drip Drip"), rape ("Diana", "Song to Comus"), and criticism surrounding electroconvulsive therapy ("The Prisoner"). These themes contrast starkly with the acoustic sound of the record, featuring acoustic guitar, violin, flute, and lyrical, almost Arcadian, female harmonies.

References to Comus by other bands and artists include Opeth, citing its lyrics in album and song titles and tattoos. Experimental outfit Current 93 also covered "Diana" as the opening song on their 1997 LP Horsey.

Artwork

The cover artwork was drawn in ball point pen by Roger Wootton, lead singer and songwriter of the band. The centrefold artwork was painted by guitarist Glenn Goring.

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} ^[2]
| rev2 = Crawdaddy!
| rev2Score = (very favorable) ^[3]
| rev3 = Tiny Mix Tapes
| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}} ^[4]
}}

Reviews were favourable (the NME praised the album's "highly unusual but fascinating sound" and Time Out said "the overall effect is unique"), but sales were small and the band dissolved after the album's release.

Early biographies of Comus said that a postal strike was one of the reasons that the album did poorly; however, none have provided an explanation for how a postal strike would have affected one particular album's sales.^[5]

Track listing

All songs copyright Our Music Ltd.
1. "Diana" – 4:37 (Colin Pearson)
2. "The Herald" – 12:15 (Andy Hellaby, Glen Goring, Roger Wootton)
3. "Drip Drip" – 10:56 (Wootton)
4. "Song to Comus" – 7:31 (Wootton)
5. "The Bite" – 5:27 (Wootton)
6. "Bitten" – 2:16 (Hellaby, Pearson)
7. "The Prisoner" – 6:15 (Wootton)

Personnel

Roger Wootton – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Glenn Goring – 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, slide guitar, hand drums, backing vocals
Andy Hellaby – fender bass, slide bass, backing vocals
Colin Pearson – violin, viola
Rob Young – flute, oboe, hand drums
Bobbie Watson – lead and backing vocals, percussion

Production

Comus - arrangements
Produced By Barry Murray - producer
Jeff Calver - recording, engineer

References

1. ^A Million Fleshy Things: The Songs Of Comus – by Chris Blackford
2. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r33760|first=Richie|last=Unterberger|accessdate=2011-06-19}}
3. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20090217040238/http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/article.aspx?id=1612 Album Review], Crawdaddy!.
4. ^Comus - First Utterance | Music Review | Tiny Mix Tapes
5. ^{{cite book|last=Wells|first=David|title=Song to Comus; the Complete Collection|year=2005|publisher=Sanctuary Records Group}}

External links

Hippy.com review
Psychedelicfolk.com review
{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r33760}}
"First Utterance" at discogs

2 : 1971 debut albums|Comus (band) albums

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