The Underground Set - 1971 - War In The Night Before

The Underground Set

1971

War In The Night Before

01. War In The Night Before

02. Top Invocation

03. Cronic Illness

04. Cool Paradise

05. Car Driving

06. Una Lettera

07. Hard To Go Up

08. Oblivion

09. Libutum

10. Hot Paradise

11. Useless Obsession

12. Hopeless Train

Bonus Tracks

13. Arcipelago

14. Motor Road Underground

15. Slaughter On The Motor Road

16. Emisfero

17. Tanto Per Cambiare

18. CH4 (as Hot Underground group)

Marco Zoccheddu - guitar, vocals

Claudio Ghiglino - guitar, vocals

Giorgio Usai - keyboards

Enrico Casagni - bass, flute, vocals

Paolo Siani - drums, vocals

The Underground Set were Italian band Nuova Idea, releasing under an assumed name for contractual reasons (they released another cult LP in 1971 as The Psycheground Group).War in the Night Before was produced by Gian Franco Reverberi (whose earlier work was sampled to form the basis of the 2006 Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy"); Reverberi also composed the album under his Ninety alias. The Underground Set's second album, War in the Night Before is definitely heavier than their 1970 self-titled debut, with great fuzz guitar, organ, Mellotron, and drums. Some riffs in a Black Sabbath style anticipate what would be defined, decades later, as "stoner rock." Psychedelia, beat, rhythm and blues, and progressive rock are all mixed into these instrumental tracks with some polyphonic choirs typical of Genovese prog (particularly New Trolls).