![]() ![]() Indeed, such was Syd’s frame of mind, that ‘The Madcap Laughs’ took eighteen months to complete, when other singer songwriter works of the era would have been done and dusted in a third of the time. ![]() Those albums represent recordings that could fall apart at any moment. This is painfully obvious in the case of ‘Rats’, with its semi-improvised train of thought and offensive phrases, and the clanging ‘Wolfpack’, where the performer struggles to keep time and rhythm when faced with even the most basic set of chords. ‘Barrett’ has a more conventional rock sound, a warmer production and a few other things that arguably make it a superior album, but Barrett’s musical snapshots show further deterioration. ![]() The ugly folk rock/dark psychedelia of ‘The Madcap Laughs’ plays out like an audio document of the performer’s mental illness, made harder to listen to due to it’s relatively minimalist approach. So much was the love for the Floyd’s 1967 debut ‘Piper At The Gates of Dawn’ and associated singles, that Barrett’s two proper solo albums ‘The Madcap Laughs’ and ‘Barrett’ (released in January and November 1970, respectively) also found an audience, despite being very difficult listens.īoth records are a document of a fractured mind. His whimsical songs about bikes, scarecrows, transvestitism and gnomes became part of English psychedelia’s core his distinctive musical vision set (The) Pink Floyd on the road to stardom. Despite only spending a small amount of time in a recording studio during his lifetime, Syd Barrett became a cult hero. ![]()
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