Children of the sun : the complete recordings 1965-1966

"Many have said the Misunderstood sounded more like a British freakbeat group than an American garage-psych outfit, but that shortchanges them a bit. The truth is, they didn't sound much like anyone else at all once they truly found their sound, and more than a half-century after this music was recorded, it still sounds fresh, vital, and ahead of the times ... the Misunderstood rank with the greatest rock bands to never cut a proper album, and while Children of the Sun: The Complete Recordings 1965-1966 doesn't take the place of the LP they never got to make, it leaves the listener with no doubt they were a strikingly talented group that anyone who cares about rock & roll past or present needs to hear".

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"This comp of the ill-fated California psych mavericks, while hardly all gold standard, needs only a few of its 32 cuts to illustrate why an evangelistic young John Peel brought them to the UK as manager in the mid-'60s ...".