AMG Review of Ark [Bonus Tracks]

William Ruhlmann
All Music Guide

While The Ark contained nothing quite as elaborate as "The Progress Suite" that had taken up one whole side of Of Cabbages and Kings, it was another psychedelic mishmash of styles -- Indian one minute, musichall the next -- of a kind so many popular performers had been indulging in at the time in hopes of making the next Sgt. Pepper. The difference was that most of Chad & Jeremy's peers had gotten it out of their systems the year before. But C&J were upper-class types who took naturally to the pretensions of the form -- they thought they were making Art. Their listeners thought differently: The Ark missed the charts, and Chad & Jeremy broke up. [A 2006 Sundazed reissue adds liner notes and three bonus tracks including a pair of previously unrealesed songs and a tune, "Song of the Love Child", that turned up later on the soundtrack to 3 in the Attic.]~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi