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Sessions for Complex's 2nd album The Way We Feel took place throughout June and July 1971. After the fiasco of the first album’s sound quality, Complex this time employed a professional set-up, Deroy Sound of Carnforth, to handle pressing duties. Bassist Lance Fogg again designed the cover, and once again 99 copies were pressed, distributed and sold or given away to family, friends and prospective contacts in the music industry. Once again, though, the album failed to further the group’s career, and Complex remained a well-kept local secret. The Way We Fell shows another set of swingin,' London-styled psychedelic pop and underground psychedelia, featuring some of the best tracks the band ever recorded, like the Zombies-sounding 'Hey Girl, You've Got Style' and the killer psych number 'We Don't Exist.' From the super sunny sensations of “Every Time I Hear That Song” to the hard and heavy jamming of the jazz influenced “We Don’t Exist,” the disc conveys an abundance of excitement and adventure.?Toe-tapping rhythms and nagging hooks are wired tight throughout cuts such as “The Way I Feel” and the paisley pinched “Lemon Pie Fair,” while “Moving Moor” is a brooding instrumental formed of classical music passages reflecting those of Procol Harum and the Moody Blues.?‘Am I?’ (complete with Small Faces-style electric keyboards intro) and ‘Jeananette’ confirmed the band’s sureness of touch with ballad material. Featuring swathes of blistering guitar from Brian, ‘If You Are My Love’ was a logical progression from the first album’s wilder underground moments, but it was probably the more commercial pop songs that showed the band in the strongest light. Beaming vocals, assisted by sweeping harmonies, expansive organ drills and stabbing guitar riffs are staples of Complex’s intricately crafted material. Although a hypnotic vibe holds the reins, the music maintains a lively and colorful exterior.?Commercial aspirations interact nicely with an experimental bent, resulting in the kind of record that would satisfy both top 40 listeners and followers of underground rock. A masterpiece of its genre sadly heard by few due to an extremely limited pressing, A few months after the release of the 2nd album organ player and songwriter Steve Coe left the group. However, the band moved quickly to replace him with keyboardist Mike Proctor, a classically-trained musician. That period of the band’s development can now be heard for the first time courtesy of an acetate album cut at Radio Blackburn in March 1972 which is included on Side 4 of the Long Hair 2-LPs-Set version of the first eponymous COMPLEX album (LONG HAIR LHC 294/5) with ‘To Make You See Me’ joined by a keyboards-based, eight-minute British prog-rock blowout that was transcribed on the acetate’s handwritten cover as ‘No Title’, although the band were planning to stick with ‘We Don’t Know Yet’, which was their answer whenever anyone asked them what the song was called! Album comes with 2 bonus tracks, alternative versions of “Moving Moor” and “We don`t exist”, full band story and rare photos. Don`t miss it.
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