The birthday party

"The Birthday Party is lovely, lavish listening. I suppose anyone into psychedelic pop would likely be familiar with it already, but it is nice to have both mono and stereo mixes plus the single tracks all together in one set. The excellent booklet includes input from the band members including Lynne and tells the Idle Race story well with some rare photographs illustrating things. Seasoned psych poppers fans and Jeff Lynne/ELO fans will have to weight up if that is enough to warrant an upgrade, but for me it does. All things considered, another fine reissue from Grapefruit of what is a neat document to illustrate what happened after the summer of love was over and it does that consummately with some fine and highly memorable tunes too".

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