Sad about the times

"Curators Mikey Young and Keith Abrahamsson began their quest to uncover '70s gems of all shades with 2017's Follow the Sun, a collection of tracks gathered from the forgotten past of the Australian music scene. Somehow Young found time between mastering jobs to work on a second batch to release for Abrahamsson's Anthology Recordings. On Sad About the Times, the duo dig deep into the singer/songwriter and outsider rock and folk scene happening in the United States in the early '70s. The songs collected here sound like examples of the one killer track able to be salvaged off a dusty LP found in the back on a thrift store shelf; the kind of record with a weird cover, a funky band name, or just some kind of uniqueness that would compel the trained eye to give it a chanc ... It's the kind of collection that is so packed with discoveries and great songs that it's hard to pin down but easy to enjoy".

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"Sad About the Times evokes 1970s nostalgia with 21 obscure tracks that never made it big, but sound like they could have ... For many of us, this elated feeling originated in the 1970s when we heard our first favorite songs. Listening to Sad About the Times is a lot like experiencing those songs all over again, but with new, vaguely familiar tracks, instead".

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