13th Floor Elevators, The
Bull Of The Woods13th Floor Elevators Label: Charly SNAP201CD Price: £ 8.80 (£7.65 outside EU)
Classic final studio album now featuring ten bonus tracks, in attractive digipak which faithfully reproduces the original artwork and includes an illustrated booklet with detailed sleeve notes. Generally recognised as being one of the pioneer psychedelic groups of the sixties, The 13th Floor Elevators released four seminal albums on the highly regarded Texan label, International Artists between 1966 and 1969. Leader Roky Erickson's involvement in the recording sessions for 'Bull Of The Woods', the group's final studio album, was somewhat curtailed owing to his being sidelined by his increasing drug and legal problems. The group's guitarist Stacy Sutherland however proved more than an able deputy for Roky and wrote most of the songs the resulting album remains as another memorable slice of psychedelia.Roky's two contributions, the reverb-drenched 'May The Circle Remain Unbroken' and 'Never Another' along with 'Doctor Doom' are album highlights. This re-issue includes ten bonus tracks. These include four out-takes from the 'Bull Of The Woods' sessions and include a sublime acoustic reading of 'Splash 1', one of the standout tracks from the group's debut album. The five 'live' titles are taken from the group's 'Live' album and are in fact studio recordings with overdubbed audience effects. As with last year's enhanced reissue of the group's other classic album, 'Easter Everywhere', the attractive digipak packaging faithfully reproduces the original artwork and includes an illustrated booklet with detailed sleeve notes.
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