Format Details: Limited Red Vinyl Edition / Red Vinyl
Release Date: 17 April 2020
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064009948
Genres: Rock
Description
It was indeed a miracle that this San Francisco outfit returned to action after a hiatus of about five years with their line-up largely intact�their debut, self-titled 1967 album on the Kama Sutra label had scored the first hit to emerge from the Bay Area psychedelic scene with "Hello, Hello," but the band broke up within a year of its release. And those familiar with the group only from its Lovin' Spoonful-esque hit (Sopwith Camel not only shared a label but also producer Eric Jacobsen with the Spoonful) might well have concluded that they had indeed gone to the moon (or somewhere else celestial) in the interim, for the 1973 Reprise release The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon was, ahem, light years ahead of its predecessor with respect to concept, scope, and musical sophistication. Here was a record that, as a 2014 appreciation in The Guardian put it, "sounds like it was recorded about a week ago...Taking in elements of FM schmaltz, prog-rock, jazz, showtunes, Krautrock and Indian classical music, this is an album that overflows with ideas, but never overwhelms." To that point, parts of this remind us of Tame Impala or even Stereolab with a self-referential, ironic edge that lends some tang to the album's perfumed exoticism; those looking for more contemporaneous comparisons might reference early Supertramp or Steely Dan. At any rate, it's one of the lost classics of the early '70s, which we at Real Gone Music are thrilled to be reissuing on vinyl for the first time in 45 years with the original gatefold artwork with lyrics intact. Very Limited Red Vinyl pressing limited to 250 copies!
Tracklisting
X-Ray Spex
Tyketto
Loudon Wainwright Iii
Petula Clark
The Donnas
Tiny Tim
Willie Nelson
Willie Hutch
Pavlov's Dog
Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife
Calva Louise
Jeff Wayne
Russell - Guns
Duke Spirit
Sam Roberts Band
