LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

'Re-Animator' features several songs with an H.P.Lovecraft theme and includes contributions from musicians who have recorded with Caravan, Jimi Hendrix and Steve Hillage.

Those who relish Paul's atmospheric tales of Victorian serial killers, mad women in the attic, Dickensian underworld characters and eccentric Edwardian inventors will know what forbidden pleasures await them for the occult figures strongly in Roland's fantasy world. But this continuing fascination with the supernatural is no mere window dressing.

"Genius at play! Roland must be ranked with the most creative and unique songwriters of his generation...the work of an exceptional talent. If Shakespeare, Poe and Conan Doyle were alive today, they would surely have some Roland in their record collections. Unfortunately they're dead...what's your excuse?" Bucketful of Brains, UK "Roland is a maestro of melancholy and madness... ornate gothic/baroque songwriting and quintessentially English pop-psych dementia...princely stuff." (Ptolemaic Terrascope)

TRACK LISTING:

• A1 Charles Dexter Ward 2:08
• A2 Re-Animator 4:27
• A3 Chain Gang 4:42
• A4 Pan 4:06
• A5 Taliesin 5:02
• A6 Arkham 2:46
• B1 Valdemar 5:15
• B2 Swamp Girl 3:55
• B3 Abdul Alhazred 1:54
• B4 Assassins 5:56
• B5 Cthullu 6:26