There's a longer version of Barney Hoskyns "Archives" review on the excellent rocksbackpages website:
FWIW, I have a sub to the site - it's an excellent resource for old interviews, reviews etc etc. Well worth it...
They offer a few free articles too - including this fabulous Greil Marcus contemporary review of EKTIN 40 years ago:
Here's his perfect description of CITS:
<<'Cowgirl in the Sand' begins with a quiet fingering of a guitar, almost subliminally accompanied by drops of rain from a rhythm instruments, setting a mood like that of the opening notes of 'Paint It, Black'. Silence, a long silence, and then a crash of a band that suddenly rises up and takes that mood away, not destroying it, but stealing it. Young takes over on guitar. He takes over, but only because he¡¯s so f*cking good. The rhythm guitarist is a rhythm guitarist in name only, for his lines are as creative and as individual as anything Young plays. He plays rhythm like Ginger Baker played drums and Jack Bruce played bass to Eric Clapton¡¯s guitar, except that he¡¯s more effective than Bruce or Baker, and Young is more gripping than Clapton.>>
Spooky that the article is numbered 666...
Brand New Guy
