Help Yourself
Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, November 1997
THE MUSIC of Help Yourself was never easily categorised. American-flavoured country-rock to begin with, albeit still somehow redolent of pastoral England, by their second and subsequent albums they were purveying some of the finest acid-drenched psych this side of the Mad River.
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