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Influenced by psychedelia and California rock, pop/rock producer
Curt Boettcher (
the Association) decided to assemble a studio supergroup who would explore progressive sounds in 1968.
Millennium's resultant album would find no commercial success and only half-baked artistic success, but nonetheless retains some period charm. Influenced in roughly equal measures by
the Association,
the Mamas and the Papas, the Smile-era
Beach Boys,
Nilsson,
the Left Banke, and
the Fifth Dimension, Boettcher and his friends came up with a hybrid that was at once too unabashedly commercial for underground FM radio and too weird for the AM dial. It would have fit in better on the AM airwaves, though; the almost too-cheerful sunshine harmonies and catchy melodies dominate the suite-like, diverse set of elaborately produced '60s pop/rock tunes. ~ Richie Unterberger