Alas, Decca dropped The Attack when they failed to get a hit with any of their first four singles, and Roman God of War took a trip to limbo. Most of the songs the group cut during this time (1968, FYI) ended up on compilations such as 1990's Magic in the Air and 2001's Final Daze, which apparently attempted to pass off some seventies demos by ex-band members as genuine Roman God-era recordings.
Guerssen's new comp Strange House drops that ruse to lay out mostly genuine Attack recordings from '68 in some sort of approximation of the LP they weren't allowed to release in their own time. Freaky phenoms such as "Magic in the Air", "Freedom for You", "Go Your Way", and "Strange House" suggest that we lost something pretty special when Decca pulled the plug. Not that all twelve tracks would have been on the LP. There's a 1969 remnant called "Anything" that was apparently intended for some sort of project by singer Richard Shirman, a demo version of "Go Your Way", and a bad hippie ballad called "Now the Sun Shines", whose relatively poor sound suggests it may have been a demo, too.
Otherwise, the sound is fine for recordings of this vintage, and it's all in mighty mono with nice bottom that never gets muddy. The vinyl is flat, quiet, and well-centered, and the repurposed liner notes from Final Daze chop out any dubious statements about those seventies recordings.
