Evensong - Evensong [1973] {2010 Beatball LP MINIATURE} (FLAC CU torrent

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Evensong - Evensong [1973] {2010 Beatball LP MINIATURE} (FLAC.CUE)



Even by “lost gem” standards, Evensong’s eponymous debut should really have fared better. Long prized by folk collectors, it was neither critically nor commercially successful. Distilling their collective influences – mainly Dylan, Paul Simon and the ISB – into an idiosyncratic and lively mix, Tony Hulme and Mick Lawson created a minor folk masterpiece. The addition of hired hands like BJ Cole and Herbie Flowers contribute to a rich, polychromatic record that gets you from the first listen.

The acoustic whimsy of the opener Dodo’s & Dinosaurs and others such as Store Of Time and the narcissistic Firefly are exactly what one would expect to hear on a lost folk record from this period. But the majority of the other songs aren’t. The hypnotic Gypsy, the dust-kickin’, Rum Runner and, the record’s masterpiece, the anthemic Borderline (about a young British Soldier in World War I) make this album a large, baroque-fashioned cut above.

The wealth and quality of the bonus material herein, including their odd final single, a cover of Neil Young’s Dance Dance Dance, complete a rich and rewarding Evensong picture.