The brilliance of Syd Barretts solo work is that it seems largely like sketches, musical sketches. You have to almost hear some of it for the potential in it, not for what is there. As the seed for Pink Floyd he was crucial yet if he had stayed with the band, it wouldn't have become what it did as that was largely Roger Waters energy. So much untapped brilliance existed in Syd Barrett, perhaps he was meant to burn brightly for a short period of time, that was just his run.
His work conjures up images of castles and kings of medieval times, fairy tales, like in the song "golden hair" as well as just an alternate reality where "clowns and jugglers" exist in this renaissance fair sort of mystical land, that is haunting, beautiful and surreal at the least.
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