Various - Tea & Symphony: The English Baroque Sound 1968-1974Compiled and annotated by Bob Stanley. When psychedelia had run its course in Britain at the end of the 60s, the predominant trend was to get hairier and heavier and more long winded. Many musicians, however, were still hung up on the trappings of psychedelias home grown strain, having found a musical home in its mournful evocations of Victoriana, its village green gentility and its nods to the pleasures of suburbia. They wanted to carry on using

and confrontational live performances

the album channels these influences through a vision soaked in mysticism

The album at hand is the fifth and for the time being last album in this row

 But these songs

What does hurt the record is a lack of strong songwriting

is packed full of brilliant cuts

Reissue of The Breeders' Last Splash: Originally released by 4AD in August 1993

sit in with the band and let the blues flow through them

Coinciding with the dates

Here Comes The Sun - Oliver Klaus 17

the Detroit Cobras 'Life

We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe