Bound as he is to producer Mickie Most, who's good when he's interested and unthinkably horrid when he's not, as is obviously the case here, it's surprising that Terry Reid continues to even try to record and almost startling that he can come up with so good an album as this.

Were it not for his excellence as a songwriter, which not even Most at his least interested can completely obscure, this...

Terry Reid is a remarkable singer; his bright tenor twists seductively around his melodies and occasionally expands into inspired improvisations that few rockers can match. Distressingly, Reid's music today bears little resemblance to the hard edge of his first two albums.

Seed of Memory, Reid's fourth release in a recording career spanning nearly ten years, is much like his previous LP,...