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Alexander 'Skip' Spence

Group Rating: 2
Global Rating: 2.46
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This is a bit off-putting to say the least. This album is full of psychedelia and ideas, a bit too much over the place (I didn't expect to hear rain and someone nailing something?), and the voice is a bit too dull (or the guy was maybe too high). It might actually require several listenings to really make my mind, but I'm not intrigued enough to do so.

This is a deeply weird album. I usually listen and then check the Wikipedia page, but in this case something made me look a couple of tracks in and the weirdness made sense. The usual sequence of events is to record a psychedelic folk rock album and then have a drug induced breakdown. Skip Spence attacked his former band mates with a fire axe after suffering severe delusions, spent six months in a secure institution and then recorded this when he got out.

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