Rust (Underground)
Come With Me

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An English underground band that, like many other bands from Albion, found itself publishing its mysterious and only debut album in Germany in the mythical '60s, in the distant 1969.
An album thus recovered from the underground depths of the era by the wonderful Italian label akarma, with an essential format that faithfully reproduces the original cover, even too much considering the nonexistent information about the group in question, just the names of the members, which don't even reveal the role of each individual musician.

The album, published somewhere along the Rhine, is quite renowned for its typical psychedelic artwork, characterized by the ritual pose of a heavily made-up, slender model that might also suggest a dark hard rock band, the murky, disturbing and even trashy cover image, can indeed make one think of a proto Black Sabbath group.

In reality, Rust presented themselves as a beat group, but theirs was raw psychedelic rock (even this feature, to be truthful, should not be taken literally because here we are not facing a kaleidoscopic space journey, rather an honest rock occasionally spiced with colorful reverb) with some traces of Pretty Things and wilder Troggs.
The instinctiveness of "You Thought You Hade It Made" and the fuzz chills of "The Endless Struggle" favor their energy, and the pop inflections of "Please Return" and "Think Big" testify to their almost mannerism-free melodic vein. "Delusion" and "Doesn't add up to me" nicely reconcile both components, making "Come With Me" an album that is not indispensable but still enjoyable, to be reconsidered in these times of fervent psych collecting.

Certainly, it arrived a couple of years late compared to the ideal placement of its musical proposition, so it was confined to the margins of a scene that was now moving towards new progressive stimuli. Finally, Rust constituted an underground meteor, soon disappeared, the LP originally released in just a few hundred copies is therefore today a subject of great demand with extremely high valuations within the collectors' market.