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LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
01. Blue Orchids - Pavement And The Boot
02. Blue Orchids - I'm A Living Sickness
03. Blue Orchids - Meditation
04. Blue Orchids - Don't Sell Your Mind
05. Blue Orchids - Addicted To The Day
06. Blue Orchids - I'm Higher Than I'm Down
07. Blue Orchids - Painted Air
08. Blue Orchids - Optical Sound
09. Blue Orchids - The Third Eye
10. Blue Orchids - Love Is A Wave
ARTIST
TITLE
The Magical Record Of Blue Orchids
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PICI 022CD PICI 022CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/5/2019

While recording 2018's Righteous Harmony Fist (PICI 015CD/LP), Blue Orchids messed about with a few covers of insanely obscure low-fi garage/psych tunes. Few casual aficionados of rock music will know more than a song or two from this set -- the likes of The Penny Saints and The Aardvarks and their kin not exactly being household names. In fact, of the seven '60s acts with songs covered here, none lasted more than a handful of singles. Complementing those songs are covers of songs by two more recent groups. The swirling keyboards of The Growlers' "Pavement And The Boot" is distilled back to its fundamental garage essence, while Crystal Stilts' two-minute original, "Love Is A Wave", is slowed down and channeled back to the melodic pop wonder lingering beneath its Reid Brothers buzzsaw and pays respect to the band, who'd themselves covered Blue Orchids' "Low Profile" a few years back. Of special interest will be "Addicted To The Day", the album's key song, the words for which were recently found in a 1977 notebook of Bramah's which at Mark E. Smith had borrowed and then scribbled down the "poem" in thanks, to which Bramah added music. The haunting lines, "How could I have suspected my abysmal future/ A doom which has haunted me/ And turned me into a wreck and a parody", are the centerpiece of the album, a concept compiled of bits and pieces of esoteric tunes, telling a tale of Faustian doom in a pact with forces of evil.