Sicilians Flea debuted in 1971 under the name Flea on the Honey and an album indebted to the British pop-psych scene. Their ranks include brothers Agostino (drums) and Antonio Marangolo (vocals and keyboards), Carlo Pennisi (guitar, vocals) - all future members of the legendary Goblin! - and Elio Volpini (bass, vocals, saxophone), the latter later merged into L'Uovo di Colombo.
If the debut album can be considered at least partly immature and derivative, however excellently produced and structured, with "Topi o Uomini" Flea unleash their creativity in a beautiful record, which opens with the twenty minutes of the title track, a song of incredible solidity and compactness that trespasses into hard, blues and psychedelic territories with impressive fluidity. The quartet's inventiveness goes even further on the B-side, in the track "I am a fish," characterized by dreamy acoustic atmospheres mixed with jazz-tinged improvisations.
A unique and unrepeatable album, reissued on transparent red vinyl with faithful reproduction of the original artwork.