MICK SOFTLEY Sunrise - Original UK LP - Folk Rock Prog Psych

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	$		37

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MICK SOFTLEY

Sunrise

Original UK LP released on CBS Records in 1970. Gatefold sleeve. Includes CBS Inner Sleeve.

S 64098 A1   /   S 64098 B2

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Softley hit the UK folk scene in the 60's (writing "The War Drags On" as covered by Donovan among others) but by the time of this LP he was living in a van on a bit of waste ground in St Albans (as depicted on the front cover). His backing band consists of virtually the same players as on Mick Greenwood's first three albums.

The album kicks off with a Richard Thompson-type rocker ("Can You Hear Me Now") before slipping into the double-mellow "Waterfall" and "Eagle", which along with another CBS act of this era, Trees, is the very definition of acid folk to some listeners. "Julie Argoyne" is a piece of whimsy to rank along with Van der Graaf's "Aerosol Grey Machine" until the oddly affecting coda. Then onto "Caravan", a stop-start acoustic number. The side is tailed by "Ship" a spacey Moog-bearing trance out of the first order.

Side two begins with "You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine", another rockin tune (maybe he felt he had to get them out of the way) with some deliciously wonky lead guitar. After the homespun folksy twittering of "Birdy Birdy" lies "Time Machine", a kind of folkier faintly Moog-y version of "In the year 2525" and probably the best known track off this release, with Softley sounding like the "space tripper" of the lyrics. Demonstrating their good taste the Dutch had this as a single A side with a hirsute Mick doing his best gonk impression on the cover.

"On the Road Again" is a solo acoustic number. The album closes with "Love Colours", an endless sitar and chant trance out that keeps pausing only to lurch off at an even more disturbing tangent every time. Maybe the best cut on the whole thing.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Can You Hear Me Now
Waterfall
Eagle
Julie Argoyne
Caravan
If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You Must Be Part Of The Problem
Ship

Side Two

You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine
Birdie Birdie
Time Machine
On The Road Again
Love Colours

Released on 'CBS Records' in 1970

Catalogue No. 64098

Disc is in VG+ condition (light surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG condition (general light wear / 4cm split to bottom edge)

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