View basket “For All Our Days That Tear The Heart” has been added to your basket. The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett SKU: 0825646310791 Barcode: 0825646310791 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino Released Date: 25th June 2014 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘The Madcap Laughs’ is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter recorded after Barrett had left Pink Floyd. Wisely, The Madcap Laughs doesn’t even try to sound like a consistent record. Half the album was recorded by Barrett’s former bandmates Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, and the other half by Harvest Records head Malcolm Jones. Surprisingly, Jones’ tracks are song for song much stronger than the more-lauded Floyd entries. The opening “Terrapin” seems to go on three times as long as its five-minute length, creating a hypnotic effect through Barrett’s simple, repetitive guitar figure and stream of consciousness lyrics. The much bouncier “Love You” sounds like a sunny little Carnaby Street pop song along the lines of an early Move single, complete with music hall piano, until the listener tries to parse the lyrics and realizes that they make no sense at all. The downright Kinksy”Here I Go” is in the same style, although it’s both more lyrically direct and musically freaky, speeding up and slowing down seemingly at random. Like many of the “band” tracks, “Here I Go” is a Barrett solo performance with overdubs by Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, and Robert Wyatt of the Soft Machine; the combination doesn’t always particularly work, as the Softs’ jazzy, improvisational style is hemmed in by having to follow Barrett’s predetermined lead, so on several tracks, like “No Good Trying,” they content themselves with simply making weird noises in the background. The solo tracks are what made the album’s reputation, though, particularly the horrifying “Dark Globe,” a first-person portrait of schizophrenia that’s seemingly the most self-aware song this normally whimsical songwriter ever created. Honestly, however, the other solo tracks are the album’s weakest tracks, with the exception of the plain gorgeous “Golden Hair,” a musical setting of a James Joyce poem that’s simply spellbinding. The album falls apart with the appalling “Feel.” Frankly, the inclusion of false starts and studio chatter, not to mention some simply horrible off-key singing by Barrett, makes this already marginal track feel disgustingly exploitative. But for that misstep, however, The Madcap Laughs is a surprisingly effective record that holds up better than its “ooh, lookit the scary crazy person” reputation suggests. ~ Stewart Mason Artist Syd Barrett Genre Rock And Pop Label Rhino Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Side One 1. Terrapin 2. No Good Trying 3. Love You 4. No Man's Land 5. Dark Globe 6. Here I Go Side Two 1. Octopus 2. Golden Hair 3. Long Gone 4. She Took a Long Cool Look At Me 5. Feel 6. If It's in You 7. 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