TITUS GROAN 1st Press. matrix. all in excellent almost unplayed condition.
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Description
all pictures are of the actual album, outer and inner sleeves, and any inserts that may have been issued with the album at the time of release.
Album will be shipped recorded delivery within the U.K Outside the U.K postage charges will depend on location of buyer and method of postage required.
Any additional insurance requested on this album will depend on the winning bidders location and requirements.
Any and all questions about this album and it’s cover will be answered to the best of my ability. So please ask.
If you require any further pictures please request and I will do my best to provide them.
Please wait for your invoice to be sent before sending payments.
All albums for sale are fully play and visually graded
TITUS GROAN.
all pictures are of the actual album, outer and inner sleeves, and any inserts that may have been issued with the album at the time of release.
Album will be shipped recorded delivery within the U.K Outside the U.K postage charges will depend on location of buyer and method of postage required.
Any additional insurance requested on this album will depend on the winning bidders location and requirements.
Any and all questions about this album and it’s cover will be answered to the best of my ability. So please ask.
If you require any further pictures please request and I will do my best to provide them.
Please wait for your invoice to be sent before sending payments.
All albums for sale are fully play and visually graded First pressing
TITUS GROAN.
1st press Matrix.
Complete original package.
EXCELLENT condition (stereo)
Orange DAWN labels (unmarked)
Matrix info.
Side One: DNLS 3012A - 3 * T.
Side Two: DNLS 3012B - 3 * T
Vinyl: Excellent unmarked vinyl, plays without any faults at all.
Catalogue No: DNLS 3102.
Vinyl Labels: DAWN.
Format: Stereo.
Date of release: 1970
INNER SLEEVES: White polly lined inner sleeve.
Artist Biography
Taking their band and album name from the titular character in the first book of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series, Titus Groan’s eponymous 1971 album is a heavy, kingsize slab of progressive rock. The sort that rattles window frames and loosens fillings.
Even the Greek Titan Atlas would’ve struggled to support the weight of a song as extraordinarily dense as ‘Hall of Bright Carvings’, and he was known for carrying the substantial burden of the heavens upon his shoulders.
One can almost envisage the heads-down hairiness of the band as they attack their instruments throughout the passage of Titus Groan. Thankfully, this unprovoked assault on their musical apparatus – and the listener’s eardrums – doesn’t register as some unholy and unlistenable mess that’s dribbled down the inside leg of Satan’s own purple loon pants.
Titus Groan, the band’s one and only album, sees the four members getting to grips with a variety of instrumentation, including the usual guitars etc. the ubiquitous organ and piano, and in the case of Tony Priestland, sax, oboe and the progger’s weapon of choice, the common or garden flute.
The combination of sax and oboe incorporates a jazzier influence that breezes across the sometimes impenetrable undercurrent of the guitars and drums, particularly on the opener ‘It Wasn’t For You’. ‘Hall of Bright Carvings’ remains as excellent as ever, with its 12 minute barrage of tuneful noise and occasional medieval flavour, and is easily Titus Groan’s finest moment.
The aforementioned flute comes to the forefront on ‘I Can’t Change’, rendering a more introspective track upon which the intricate melodies weave in and out of the heavy rock grumbling away in the background.
Overall, Titus Groan’s first and last album is progressive rock from the heavier end of the spectrum, free from the overly self-indulgent trappings that bogged down, and ultimately sank, many of their peers.
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Returns are accepted providing that there is a problem that has not been covered in the above description, and the item is returned within seven days of receiving it., all items above £30 are sent recorded delivery to the U.K
The Packaged weight of these albums is 800 when packed as there is two outer sleeves, two vinyl’s, two inners and one poster.
Royal Mail recorded delivery in the U.K will be £4.70. including packaging
To Europe is around £6.00 including packaging
Example of rest of the World.
USA £13-0
Please read my conditions of sale and delivery below.
I do post worldwide.
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For bidders outside the U.K please contact me so I can let you know the cost depending on your location.
A full refund will be given if the buyer has a genuine problem with the item bought, that has not been mentioned in the description, and provided the item is returned within seven days of arrival to buyer with proof of delivery day. return postage is at buyers expense.
Buyers from outside the UK will have an extra week to return an item provided the buyer informs the seller within seven days of delivery.
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Packaging.
All albums . Vinyl’s and inserts will be packed separately, sleeve and vinyl's are always packed inside a purpose made plastic sleeve. The complete package will then be placed into a stiff card package and two stiffeners added.
The package will be clearly marked
FRAGILE PLEASE DO NOT BEND OR DROP.
Buyers address will be put on both sides of the package and also my own address just to be safe in case, god forbid the album was lost in the post.
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Some of my feedback comments from Buyers.
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