This may be my favorite ever Elevators album. It's just brilliant from start to finish full of great music.You can put this on without skipping any tracks from start to finish. As much as I love the first two elevators albums, this one is like the 'ugly duckling' of the pack which is why I'm fond of it.There's also a weird bluesy psychedelic feel to the whole thing, Sutherland's guitar playing is exceptional on this record and you can hear him cutting loose much more here. Lysergic lead lines with awesome reverb capture that stoned acid zone out feel. This LP is most appropriate for taking psilocybin to.

Agreed, this album is the pinicle of their career :)

On “Bull of the Woods,” Stacy Sutherland took over most of the songwriting and vocals for the Elevators with amazing results. Stacy’s style mixes the bluesy with the transcendental, resulting in fuzzy cosmic honky-tonk jams that drip with the weird melancholy of a weary traveler to other dimensions. “Til Then” features some brilliant slide-guitar playing that outshines anything Sterling Morrison ever did for the Velvet Underground. “Scarlet and Gold” may be the best song on the album--shimmery guitars chime sadly while Sutherland recounts a folksy and laconically existential narrative of a lonely man trying to save his soul. The chorus is downright ghostly, with Sutherland intoning “And our tired eyes will cease their burning/When the devil’s bones lay parching in the sun/And the night man is waiting at the station/Gathering all the stops one by one/I suggest that you make a reservation/before all these things are done,” a bleak, countrified vision of the apocalypse that gives way in the bridge to some incredibly tranced-out & bluesy soloing. “The Rose and the Thorn” is another one of the album's many standout tracks. The song starts off slow with start-stop drum rolls before building up to a soaring melancholic crescendo that’s easily one of the most chilling moments in the Elevators' music. It’s as if you can hear Stacy slipping into the spirit world while he sings. The song totally eschews a verse-chorus-verse arrangement, opting instead for a constantly changing structure that’s almost like an epic Amon Düül II jam condensed into a three-minute pop song. The few appearances Roky makes on the album are all mesmerizing, especially his subdued and otherworldly performance of the reverb-drenched mantra “May the Circle Remain Unbroken,” which closes the album on an almost ritualistic note. “Bull of the Woods” is one of the most visionary psychedelic rock albums, as well as one of the darkest.