For those not in the know, some bands conquered the charts, others ruled the clubs — but Ice? They were too busy becoming legends without leaving their studio. Born from Sussex University’s creative cauldron in 1967, this mysterious outfit turned their complete lack of live appearances into pure mystique, armed with Hammond organ wizardry and arrangements sophisticated enough to make jazz cats weep with envy.

With just two official singles to their name — the pop perfection of Anniversary (Of Love) and the mind-bending Ice Man — they carved a unique niche in British rock history by proving that sometimes less really is more. Their third single Walk On The Water was apparently so steamy that Radio One demanded they cool it down to Walk Under Water just to get airplay, because even censors have their limits!

Though Ice melted away by 1968 (with members later surfacing in Affinity, Sailor, and even pioneering MIDI technology), their legend only crystallized over time.

Think Like A Key Music’s 2025 release Whisper Her Name (The Complete 1967-68 Recordings) finally brings together their complete recordings and radio session mysteries — proof that sometimes the bands you can’t see leave the most lasting impression on your ears.

1. Ice Man
2. Whisper Her Name (Maria Laine)
3. Anniversary (Of Love)
4. So Many Times
5. Walk on the Water
6. Time’s Fading Fast
7. Day Tripper
8. Ice Man
9. Wide Blue Yonder Boy
10. Open the Door to Your Heart
11. Burning Burning
12. Two Hearts
13. Little Girl in Wonderland
14. Like a Woman
15. Skyline
16. Wait
17. Monday
18. Tell Me
19. Silver Lady

With this set finally unfreezing one of UK psych’s strangest phantoms, ICE open their collection on the easy breeze of Ice Man, the triumphant Whisper Her Name (Maria Laine), the elegant Anniversary (Of Love) and the languishing So Many Times, and then we get given the pop-rock of Walk on the Water, the low key balladry of Time’s Fading Fast, a dutiful, albeit softer rendition of the Beatles’ Day Tripper, with another Ice Man and the Hendrix-esque rocker Wide Blue Yonder Boy are brought forth.

Up next is the rhythmical Open the Door to Your Heart, the feisty pop-rocker Burning Burning and the low slung Two Hearts, and they are in turn backed by the mid-tempo Little Girl in Wonderland, the soft touch of Like a Woman, the free-flowing Skyline, before the impassioned balladry of Wait, the gently strummed beauty Monday and both the sedately sumptuous Tell Me and the strum-tastic affair Silver Lady bring the set to a close.

This CD is inside a deluxe 6-panel 350g digifile (sturdier than their TV bookings ever were) and contains all known studio and BBC tracks (first collected by Angel Air in 2005) with notes sketching their elusive story, and has been remastered by Prof. Stoned for maximum spectral clarity.

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