The Plastic Cloud / The Plastic Cloud (Tape)

Description

Reissue – hand-numbered limited edition of 300 copies

Insert comes with lyrics and additional information

1968-Canada

Format: Cassette Tape

#Ref: LION-CS 101

Release date: 2014

Release notes

“What remains so remarkable about the band’s album is that… the performances retain an energy, but also a naivety, that somehow evokes both the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground — often within the same song.” —Shindig! Magazine

Plastic Cloud recorded, quite simply, one of the greatest underground psychedelic albums ever made: a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in the some of the most relentless fuzz guitar you will ever hear. There is no point singling out a specific track, they are all excellent—one is equally as good as the next. Take for example the album centerpiece, the ten-and-a-half-minute ‘You Don’t Care,’ an insane piece of social commentary that features terrific back-of-the-mix fuzz guitar as an elusive focal point to its extended pounding-drum laden instrumental breaks; a ten-minute swath of lysergic fuzz guitar that closes out the first side, it doesn’t overstay its welcome, winding its way to a final freak out. A record with few equals, full of foreboding melodies and lovely hippie harmonies, as well as some of the trippiest fuzz guitar ever recorded. Essential psychedelia!

•One of the top underground psychedelic albums ever released

•Allied Records first pressings (1968) sell for nearly $1,000

Tracklisting

Side A:
01. Epistle To Paradise (3:25)
02. Shadows Of Your Mind (4:10)
03. Art’s A Happy Man (3:05)
04. You Don’t Care (10:25)

Side B:
01. Bridge Under The Sky (4:25)
02. Face Behind The Sun (4:43)
03. Dainty General Rides (4:05)
04. Civilization Machine (8:55)