Name: New Moon's in the Sky - The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1970
Brand: Various

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CRSEGBOX059

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Limited edition

Release date

2019-08-23

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Cherry Red (ADA)

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5013929185906

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

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Prog Rock

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Grapefruit

Having documented the British psychedelic scene with anthologies devoted to the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, Grapefruit’s ongoing series fearlessly confronts the dawn of the Seventies with a slight rebrand. <i>New Moon’s In The Sky: The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1970</i> features (appropriately enough) seventy tracks from the first year of the new decade as the British pop scene adjusted to life without The Beatles.

The 3-CD set concentrates on the more song-based recordings to emanate from British studios during 1970, whether from a pure-pop-for-then-people perspective or the more concise, melodic end of the burgeoning progressive rock spectrum. It acknowledges the end of the road for some bands who’d achieved a modicum of late Sixties success (Honeybus, Love Sculpture, Plastic Penny) while also charting the arrival of various acts like Curved Air, Atomic Rooster (about to score two major hit singles in the space of six months), Stray, future heavy metal major leaguers UFO, Affinity and Cressida, all of whom were able to combine underground rock credibility with an appreciation of the three-minute pop song.

It also features a number of successful late Sixties acts attempting to stay relevant in the new decade and adapt to a changing musical landscape (The Hollies, The Move, Status Quo, Procol Harum, The Tremeloes etc). But as always, it also sheds light on the lost and buried: the studio-only creations, the Beatles disciples, the psychedelic folk adventurers, the one-shot-and-you’re-out releases, the pseudonymous pranksters and the backroom duckers and divers that littered the industry at the turn of the decade. Included are a couple of tracks from one of the greatest music library psych albums (and no, it isn’t The Electric Banana), a handful of recordings that unfathomably failed togain a release at the time (including the mighty Five Day Rain) and even a couple of 1970 locally- recorded demos that have never previously seen the light of day.

Housed in a clamshell box containing a 52-page booklet that’s crammed to bursting point with group bios and obscure photos / memorabilia, <i>New Moon’s In The Sky</i> is a fascinating document of afebrile period. It’s also yet another essential Grapefruit package.

New Moon's in the Sky - The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1970

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