Their time has come, gone, returned. It’s Zombies season again: a new album, a documentary (Hung Up on a Dream), shows on the program. Six decades after they met in St Albans, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent are active, creative and cheerful. Consider that the group had dissolved in 1968, for lack of interest from their record company. In the first bars of Rod’s organ of the title song, in the first high-pitched notes of Colin, we find them, in the present tense of their baroque ‘n’ roll. When Rod is at the electric piano (as in Dropped Reeling&Stupid), the jazzy-soul part of their music exults. When they sing in harmony Rediscover, they are the British brothers of Brian Wilson. The whole palette is there. The melody of Runaway rocks us, Colin serves up the best of his whispered arpeggios, then sings full voice on the majestic piano chords of Rod in You Could Be My Love. Ten titles of this higher level: it is to say the happiness of a fan. That I remain, amazed.
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