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Release Date:: 01/01/1970
Label:: Japanese Import
UPC:: 458011367030

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On the Free Design's 1970 record Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, not much has changed with the Dedrick clan. The group's amazing vocal harmonies are still very much in evidence, the lush arrangements are still fuller than Grizzly Adams beard and the songs, like the cute and silly Kije's Ouija and the fingersnappingly groovy Keep Off Your Frown which sounds like an unlikely cross between Oscar Brown, Jr. and the Zombies, are still lighthearted and fun. Most of the songs sound like they exist in the Dedrick's own strange little world of harmony and childlike innocence, the only one that sounds influenced by the times is I'm a Yogi which has sitars, a mild psychedelic break and groovy lyrics. It sounds more like Yogi Bear than the Maharishi but then that is the charm of the Free Design. The record is filled with some of the band's best work; the bouncy, perky Bubbles (a song later covered by Dressy Bessy on the Powerpuff Girls soundtrack record), the sweet Butterflies are Free which features the Dedrick sisters on lead vocals, the brash (for them) That's All, People that sounds like a lost Jimmy Webb track with great vocal interplay among the siblings and the strangely bossy Christmas tune Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas). The only track that falls short is their cover of Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head which is the rare Design effort that sounds like run of the mill elevator music. Pretty much any Free Design recordings going to be a treasure for fans of intelligent, witty and above all sophisticated sunshine pop. Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love is no exception.

- Tim Sendra, All Music Guide

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