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Spinning Top Records

POND - The Early Years: 2008 - 2010 - 2LP - 180g Mango Vinyl [RSD 2025] POND

£38.00 Coming Soon RSD 2025
Genre: Rock.
Format: RSD 2025 - 2LP - 180g Mango Vinyl

Pickup currently unavailable at Shop location - Cheltenham

Condition: Brand New
Release date: Apr 12, 2025
Catalogue number: STR038LPC1
Barcode: 0612789326273

This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. • Available to buy in-store from 9am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). • Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.

Record Store Day Exclusive

Limited to 2,500 Copies on Mango Vision Vinyl. 'Early Years' is made up of three albums, 'Psychedelic Mango' (2008), 'Corridors of Blissterday' (2009) and 'Frond' (2010)

The first two were never originally mastered, which meant we could just take the 16bit WAV from the CD copies we found and master them for the first time

The CD's by the way were from the CD Pressing Plant down the road from us, we just took our digital 8 track files down there and asked for 'some CD's please!'.   Frond was mastered and luckily the guy who mixed it (Sam Ford) had the pre-mastered mixes for us to use

We did flirt with the idea of running these onto tape, or mastering them with heaps of valve gear to try and 'warm' the very digital recordings up, but at the end of the day, they were made by 3 bozos with very limited recording knowledge, skill and equipment, but a lot of imagination

It made sense to try and improve them with this master,  but also keep the spirit true to the original recordings

We hope you enjoy the early years of Pond." Jay Watson "From the band's conception under the teeming purple branches of Mulberia, it's first steps around a filthy share-house carpet in Daglish, to some of its first words - 'mango' 'duck' 'bucket' - these songs form a sepia photo album of Ponds giddy first days, lovingly re-touched and remastered by Jay and Gin. They were the best of times, and probably not anywhere near the worst of times

Just some barely adult idiots with limited access to money or the internet trying to be silly and trippy in equal measures, while lacking the intellect or maturity to see how vastly overambitious they actually were." Nicholas Allbrook

Track List:

Side A
1. That is How We Came
2. Psychedelic Mango Vision
3. Don't Look at the Sun or You'll Go Blind

Side B
1. Sweet Loretta
2. Mist in My Brain Forest

Side C
1. Betty Davis
2. Torn Asunder
3. Annie Orangetree
4. Mussels Tonight

Side D
1. Sunlight Cardigan
2. Frond

Format: RSD 2025 - 2LP - 180g Mango Vinyl

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