Thin Lizzy were a band that operated on multiple layers with Phil Lynott’s imagistic lyrics providing an endless world to explore. This first album, self-titled, encapsulates a special energy of Dublin that’s quite hard to explain. It’s the Dublin you experience on a dry Summer’s evening when the sun sets like a big red balloon behind the Poolbeg Chimneys and you watch it die from the rock pools across the bay, drinking a beer or smoking a joint. It attaches a hippy vibe to a familiar landscape. Poetic and cosmic thoughts transforming private areas, known and loved, into romantic fables and modern myths.