LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

The sole album by Oliver Chaplin is a work of peculiar genius. Recorded on a farm in rural Wales without a thought to commercial considerations, it melds Delta blues with biting psychedelic guitar, acid folk and a range of production effects (by Oliver’s brother Chris, an engineer who’d worked on Jimi Hendrix’s BBC sessions). The result is a unique blast of counter-cultural energy. Ultra-rare in its original vinyl incarnation, it makes its long-overdue return to CD here.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Off On A Trek
2. Trance
3. Flowers On A Hill
4. Freezing Cold Like An Iceberg
5. Royal Flush
6. Cat And The Rat
7. Instamatic
8. Telephone
9. Getting Fruity
10. Tricycle
11. Motorway
12. Primrose
13. In Vain
14. Multiplex
15. Orbit Your Factory
16. Tok Tic
17. Where’s My Motorbike