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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present English Weather

Various Artists

SKU: XXQLP2049

Barcode: 029667005517

29.00 £29.00
  • Genre: Folk
  • Label: Ace Records
  • Released Date: 27th January 2017
  • Buying Format:
    180g 2LP Coloured Vinyl

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The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it’s always interesting, melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches.

While America may have licked its wounds at the turn of the seventies by turning to singer-songwriters, purveyors of homilies like “teach your children well”, Britain wasn’t so ready to give up the trappings of psychedelia. And while the UK counterculture may have shed its “faith in something bigger”, it wasn’t about to chuck out the mellotron. This is how the day after the sixties felt: damp, fuzzy-headed, neither optimistic nor pessimistic but more than a little lost. British bands would mirror the ennui of the new decade with a new kind of music.

Lavishly put together, with two of Peter Mitchell’s iconic photographs of 1970’s Leeds.

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Track Listings

DISC ONE
SIDE 1
1. LOVE SONG WITH FLUTE - Caravan
2. MOON BIRD - The Roger Webb Sound
3. EARLY MORNING EYES - The Parlour Band
4. PAMELA - Scotch Mist
5. THE PRISONER (EIGHT BY TEN) – Spring
SIDE 2
1. LAST CLOUD HOME - The Orange Bicycle
2. JLT - T2
3. TIL THE CHRIST COME BACK - Bill Fay
4. REFUGEES - Van Der Graaf Generator
5. VERY NICE OF YOU TO CALL – Aardvark

DISC TWO
SIDE 3
1. BIG WHITE CLOUD - John Cale
2. BOTTLES - Belle Gonzalez
3. WATCHING WHITE STARS - The Way We Live
4. WINDFALL - Offspring
5. NEVER LET GO – Camel
SIDE 4
1. WISE MAN IN YOUR HEART - Daevid Allen
2. O CAROLINE - Matching Mole
3. EDGE OF THE SEA - Prelude
4. EVENING SHADE - Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw

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