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01. Siren - Ze-Ze-Ze-Ze
02. Siren - Get Right Church
03. Siren - Rock Me Baby
04. Siren - Wake Up My Children
05. Siren - Wasting My Time
06. Siren - Sixteen Women
07. Siren - First Time I Saw Your Face
08. Siren - Gardener Man
09. Siren - And I Wonder
10. Siren - The War Is Over
11. Siren - Asylum
12. Siren - Bertha Lee
13. Siren - I Wonder Where
ARTIST
TITLE
Siren
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BONF 002LP BONF 002LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/8/2021

Reduced price, last copies. Bonfire Records present a reissue of Siren's self-titled album, originally released on John Peel's Dandelion label in 1969. Siren was the debut album by Kevin Coyne with Siren, the band he founded with former Bonzo Dog Band bassist Dave Clague and pianist/guitarist Nick Cudworth. An artist who would later inspire John Lydon, Sting, Ben Watt, and Will Oldham and would collaborate with Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Dagmar Krause, Brendan Croker, Gary Lucas, and The Mekons' Jon Langford, Kevin Coyne deserves a royal place between the likes of Syd Barrett, Peter Hammill, and Daevid Allen. Standing on the verge of British blues, folk and rawk n' roll, Siren could have been easily labeled as the British answer to Canned Heat, but there's even more. "And I Wonder" is clearly an anticipation of what would happen next, with the solo career of Coyne, more focused on acid folk songwriting. Licensed by Cherry Red. 180 gram vinyl. "Most of the album is good time rock-on-out-music a la the Flamin' Groovies... one of those (albums) you keep coming back to when the night gets cold and the wine is almost out. I play it a lot, and that's the nicest thing I can say about an album." --Ed Ward, Rolling Stone. "Siren just came as a breath of fresh air really, in the same way that like a generation later The Ramones did. When you just thought 'Thank God for that!' You hadn't realized how bored you'd become..." --John Peel.