HELP YOURSELF "Beware The Shadow" 1972 UK 1st PRESS NM

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HELP YOURSELF "Beware The Shadow" 1972 UK 1st PRESS NM LAMINATED SLEEVE w/ TAN UA COMPANY INNER - TOP COPY

HELP YOURSELF
Beware The Shadow


ORIGINAL UK UNITED ARTISTS (UAS 29413) FIRST PRESSING (1972) OF HELP YOURSELF'S THIRD LP "Beware The Shadow" IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION (this copy is either completely unplayed or has received just a few very careful plays only as the labels show no spindle marks or have any signs of use at all ) AND IT DELIVERS CRYSTAL CLEAR, CLEAN, BRIGHT AND DETAILED AUDIO THROUGHOUT WITH PRACTICALLY NOTHING TO FAULT - FANTASTIC COPY AND THE FINEST I HAVE SEEN - AND YOU DON'T SEE MANY OF THESE

PRESSED ON QUALITY MID/HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST BEIGE UA LABELS
MATRICES: UAS 29413 A-1U / UAS 29413 B-2U (etched 'PORKUM')
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/M and 1/P
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED SINGLE SLEEVE WHICH HAS A DEEP, DEEP GLOSSY FINISH
AND THE SET COMES COMPETE WITH THE ORIGINAL TAN COLOURED UA COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

On Help Yourself's third album, the band kept on exploring its quietly entertaining fusion between the trippier and rootsier sides of its personality, a bar band for those who liked to spend their days baking in the sun.
The most affecting song is the closer, the beautiful "Passing Through," a gentle acoustic ballad that has the same regret-tinged melancholy of prime Nick Drake but, thanks to the higher singing register, comes across as a quiet anthem.
The moments when the band freely takes flight are the major highlights elsewhere. The nearly side-long "Reaffirmation" could almost be a bit of proto-new age banality in the wrong hands but -- given the way Morley sings about "cuttin' butter with a knife" amidst the flute noises and how the slow, understated first section turns into a just-freewheeling-enough jam -- it works.
"American Mother" takes a more self-consciously epic stance from the start and gets away with it beautifully, with opening guitar that can only be described as heroic and an overall flow that sounds perfect for an easygoing drive down desert highways while chasing the sun.
Other excursions into varying styles sometimes smack of dilettantism for its own sake, but things like the brief fragment "Colapso" and the throw-away goofy country drawling and strumming of "Molly Bake Bean" project good-natured humour more than anything else.

Track Listing:
Side 1: Alabama Lady (4:01) / Reaffirmation (12:25) / Colapso (0:59)
Side 2: She's My Girl (3:18) / Molly Bake Bean (2:17) / American Mother (7:39) / Passing Through (4:26)

LABELS: The labels are clean, bright, fresh and unmarked with no spindle traces or any signs of use at all - MINT
VINYL Visual: Both surfaces retain their original deep, glossy sheen and appear practically as-new but for some light brush marks a light mark on Side One, Track One but these are superficial and have no audio consequence - visually EXCELLENT+
VINYL Audio: Outstanding audio delivery in all respects with a crystal clear, clean, sharp and detailed sound and on playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my LPs prior to listing) there are no scratches, no sticks or jumps, no surface noise and barely any clicks or pops (a few very intermittent light 'ticks' on the quiet mellotron fade-in to"Reaffirmation" - but they are extremely minor and there are none anywhere else) - the quieter sections play just about as beautifully and as silently as vinyl possibly can. The whole LP sounds sensational and plays to just about the highest possible standard with superb clarity, no groove-wear and no distortion (it's possibly never been played) and is very strictly graded NEAR MINT for audio
SLEEVE: The single laminated sleeve is in beautiful condition with a deep, deep glass-like gloss to the surfaces. The edges are crisp and square with no signs of storage rubbing and the spine is straight and true with all text clear and bold. There is record pressure on the central sections of the top and bottom edges but the laminate is not split even though the card underneath is cracked (please see photos) - in my opinion this is an extremely minor issue and in no way detracts to the overall crisp, fresh, practically as-new feel of the sleeve - NEAR MINT
INNER SLEEVE: The original tan coloured UA company inner sleeve (which is now a bit of a rarity in its own right) is clean, fresh and unmarked with just a small central split to the bottom edge (3cms) again, this does not detract from it's crisp, fresh feel and it's very nice that the original inner is still present - EXCELLENT

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