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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: English Weather

The latest project from two-thirds of Saint Etienne is a compact disc and deluxe double LP of English music that represented the transition from psychedelia to prog as the 60s moved into the 70s. Most of it is not an easy listen, but it’s always interesting, melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches. While America may have licked its wounds at the turn of the seventies by turning to singer-songwriters, purveyors of homilies like “teach your children well”, Britain wasn't so ready to give up the trappings of psychedelia. And while the UK counterculture may have shed its “faith in something bigger”, it wasn't about to chuck out the mellotron. This is how the day after the sixties felt: damp, fuzzy-headed, neither optimistic nor pessimistic but more than a little lost. British bands would mirror the ennui of the new decade with a new kind of music. It features 19 tracks from Caravan, John Cale, Camel, Matching Mole, Alan Parker and Alan Hawkshaw, Spring etc. Lavishly put together, with two of Peter Mitchell’s iconic photographs of 1970’s Leeds.

Tracklist

• 1. Love Song With Flute - Caravan
  2. Moon Bird - The Roger Webb Sound
  3. Early Morning Eyes - The Parlour Band
  4. Pamela - Scotch Mist
  5. The Prisoner (Eight By Ten) - Spring
  6. Last Cloud Home - The Orange Bicycle
  7. JLT - T2
  8. Til The Christ Come Back - Bill Fay
  9. Refugees - Van Der Graaf Generator
  10. Very Nice Of You To Call - Aardvark
  11. Big White Cloud - John Cale
  12. Bottles - Belle Gonzalez
  13. Watching White Stars - The Way We Live
  14. Windfall - Offspring
  15. Never Let Go - Camel
  16. Wise Man In Your Heart - Daevid Allen
  17. O Caroline - Matching Mole
  18. Edge Of The Sea - Prelude
  19. Evening Shade - Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw