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Made In England Acme Deluxe ADLP-1036 LP £16.99 Forget the vague Dad’s Army trimmings, the UK’s Bulldog Breed played psychedelia as an occult nightmare, with tranced tracks like “Austin Osman Spare” referencing the sidereal artist and magician beloved by Coil, Current 93 et al. Although at points 1969’s Made In England is as bun-fixated as the next sugarcube flasher, there are enough heavy, street-fighting moves and experimental acid rockers mixed in with the more marmalade curdling sides to please even the most hard-up free-festival attendee. Bulldog Breed had connections to crunchers like Gun, Please and T2. More and more it’s this kind of wild backwards UK psych that feels like the real roots of England’s Hidden Reverse. Highly recommended and now out of print. |
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1967 Recordings Acme Deluxe ADLP-1032 LP £13.99 Drummer/vocalist Peter Dunton is one of the major unsung players in the history of British psychedelic rock. Across a series of groups like The Flies, Please, Gun, T2 and Infinity, Dunton laid down a series of beautifully epic rock sides that combined a taste for acid with the crunch of space/blues, droned pop songs and a flat-lined, barely there vocal style that made him sound like a schoolboy voicing oracular transmissions from the other side. I still rate “No More White Horses” (recorded by both Please and T2) as one of the greatest UK psych tracks of all time. No one outside of Gary Ramon (Sun Dial et al) has done quite so much to keep Dunton’s name alive, issuing a ton of great/lost material via his Acme imprint. Neon Pearl is the latest instalment in this on-going saga, a series of demo recordings from 1967 that stand as his earliest work to date. Neon Pearl formed in 1967 with the intention of holding down a beat club residency in Germany. Soon augmenting their set of cover versions with a series of psilocybin-cut originals, they became virtual standard bearers for the new wave of British psych in Germany. On their return to the UK they hit the studio and cut these perfectly formed demos, a set of slow euphoric stones that pre-figure the kind of heavily-blissed psych that Dunton would focus on in Please, the band that Neon Pearl were soon to become. A great set and comes complete with liners and pics from the time. |
