MANDRAKE MEMORIAL 'Medium' LP Original POPPY PRESS PSYCH psychedelic NICE COPY
  $   35

 


$ 35 Sold For
Feb 1, 2014 Sold Date
Jan 22, 2014 Start Date
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NICE ORIGINL PRESS copy of this rare PSYCH CLASSIC  lp on the Poppy label!!(pys-40003) COOL Second album by the MM folks

 Complete with Original reddish/orange Inner sleeve...A long time fave among psych/prog heads...these MM lps are unique and cool!!

 

Here is a review from the 'Prog Archives' Website: 

 

Sometimes it's good to be humbled, to give new cahnces, and to discover how you were wrong in the past. In a lifetime, there may be a record to polarise you and disgust you, only to prove you wrong the next time it's listened to: Medium is such a record for me.

The first time I heard Medium was in a transfer from the original vynil, with a sufferable sound quality and a volume so low it was almost impossible to listen to in an acceptable volume. Looking back to it, I regret not grabbing the CD release of this, because I finally realise what I missed.

While I still consider Puzzle a better record, Medium is nowhere near as bad as I originally judged, actually it is quite impressive, specially when compared to the first release, with darker textures, better-crafted melodies and more mature songwriting and instrument skill: long gone are songs like "Bird Journey" or "Dark Lady", the time has come to explore the sombre atmosphere of "To A Lonely" and "Strange", and this record has plentyful of it.

What I find interesting in Medium is Mandrake Memorial's ability to merge the psychedelia of the debut and the prog of Puzzle, at that, this is still a transitional record, but the transitions are better perceived when you can hear the actual songs.

Every single song here has something nice to offer, even the ones I once judged as dreadful: who could tell that "Last Number" had such a great hook, that "Barnaby Plum" has a charming flute atmosphere, or that "Cassandra" actually sounds alive and breathing? I couldn't, but now I'm glad I can. On a retrospective view, it was clear Michael Kac would last much longer, even if he matured with the rest of the band, his poppy style of singing and the already outdated Rock-Si-Chord weren't fit for MM's constantly complexer style. After Medium he left for good not to be replaced, leaving them as a trio.

 

 

NICE copy of this!!Sounds Really nice!! PLEASE NOTE WE ARE ALSO SELLING THEIR FIRST S/T LP THIS WEEK TOO!!

Cover looks nice... with a bit of very light wear/aging/ring wear...worse on the back where someone wrote their name really small in pen...a 1/2" seam split starting on the left too..but really, not too bad overall(EX--)

Record has a very small bit of light wear, but seems to play great...(EX)   A nice copy for a classic record this old!

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