VA — Tea & Symphony (The English Baroque Sound 1968-1974) (2020)

When psychedelia had run its course in Britain at the end of the 60s, the predominant trend was to get hairier and heavier and more long-winded. Many musicians, however, were still hung up on the trappings of psychedelia\’s home-grown strain, having found a musical home in its mournful evocations of Victoriana, its village green gentility and its nods to the pleasures of suburbia. They wanted to carry on using woodwinds, cellos and melancholic melodies. As the advent of the singer-songwriter offered another possible avenue for these refuseniks, a new brand of pop was discernible — the English Baroque sound.

01. Ray Brooks — Pictures

02. The Honeybus — I Cant Let Maggie Go

03. Lea Nixon — Off to Find a New Land

04. Jon Plum — Alice

05. Bombadil — When the City Sleeps

06. Mike Batt — Fading Yellow

07. Colin Blunstone — Say You Dont Mind

08. Gordon Waller — The Seventh Hour

09. Erasmus Chorum — Mary Jane

10. Tandem — Shapes and Shadows

11. Nirvana — Please Believe Me

12. Vigrass And Osborne — Forever Autumn

13. Richard Henry — Oh Girl

14. Les Payne — Very Well

15. Sunchariot — Youre Lovely

16. Mike Sedgewick — Pollution Song

17. Bill Kenwright — Epitaph

18. Clifford T Ward — Coathanger

19. Christopher — The Race

20. David McIvor — Closing My Eyes

21. The Bliss — Life

22. Matthew Bones — Two Sugars