Featuring surreal gems like "Baby Lemonade" and the explorative "Gigolo Aunt" the album compels with a softly focused hazy introspection. Released in November of 1970, Barrett again enlisted former bandmates' production guidance (Gilmour again in addition to Richard Wright) at Abbey Road Studios. The reissue is pressed lovingly on golden hair colored vinyl. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios (then known as EMI Recording Studios) with production help from former Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters, the album surprisingly reached number 40 on the UK charts. Standout tracks like the debut single "Octopus" charm with whimsy and consciousness-expanding lyrical exploration. Originally released in January 1970, The Madcap Laughs serves as Barrett's best-known and most fully-realized solo effort. Individually out of print on LP for almost ten years and NEVER previously available together on vinyl, Third Man Records is humbled to present Syd Barrett's solo albums - The Madcap Laughs, Barrett, and Opel - as the 57th installment of the Vault subscription series. Syd Barrett's body of work is of the highest caliber. Barrett's overexaggerated reputation for experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs tends to propagate the mystique behind his art, but do not mistake that for importance. His influence and reach cannot be overstated. While Syd Barrett may not be the first nor the most successful to dive into the convergence of the psychedelic and folk realms, he is, without question, the quintessential archetype from which all others must be compared. Yet his subsequent solo work, in the shadow of Floyd's impending world-spanning omnipresence, exists as a quixotic, mythical output that's equally confounding and delightful, earning a cult following of adventurous ears over the ensuing fifty years.
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With his specter looming so large over the band, it's not hard to believe the apocryphal quote that Pink Floyd was genuinely considered without a future upon the 1968 exit of cofounder and primary songwriter Syd Barrett.īarrett led the legendary band and helped steer the surrounding scene out of the limiting constraints of its blues-based R&B roots and full speed into the expanse of the lysergic late 1960's. "Well, that's the last we'll ever hear of Pink Floyd." Individually out of print for almost ten years, and never previously available together on vinyl, Barrett's complete solo works are featured in this set on stunning 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man Pressing in Detroit and packaged together in a custom slipcase with new exclusive artwork.Īs an added bonus that is sure to entice any Pink Floyd completist, the set includes a 7-inch single by David Gilmour covering two Barrett compositions, "Dominoes'' and "Dark Globe." Sign up is open now through July 31 at midnight CST here. (BHM) Third Man Records (in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment) is humbled to present Syd Barrett's solo albums - The Madcap Laughs, Barrett, and Opel - as the 57th installment of the Vault subscription series.
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