Nirvana – Orange & Blue - Blue (Blue, Colored, Reissue LP Vinyl)
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The British Nirvana predates their Seattle namesake by decades, built around the psychedelic pop sensibilities of Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos, who first made waves in the late 1960s London scene. Their decision to cover "Lithium" on this 1996 comeback was a pointed, almost wry acknowledgment of the name confusion that had followed them for years, and it works surprisingly well filtered through their melodic, introspective lens.
First vinyl pressing of British Nirvana's surprise 1996 album, which revived songs written back in the Sixties but never released. Taking it's title from one of those songs, Orange And Blue has all the idiosyncrasies you'd expect from the minds of Patrick Lyons-Campbell and Alex Spyropoulos but done with a nineteen-nineties spin. And it's story of how it all came to be, as with all things Nirvana - is not so straightforward, but detailed inside the liner notes. Across it's dozen tracks, ranging from sci-fi pop nuggets like "Lost In Space" to gentle ballads "Our Love Is The Sea", written specifically for Françoise Hardy, to their curiously bold cover of Seattle Nirvana's "Lithium", it's an album that hold many surprises. Along with rare session photographs, the set includes four bonus tracks in addition to new interviews from the band and their key co-conspirator, Keith Smart, which make it a definitive edition of this mysterious album.
Tracklist
- Orange and Blue
- Lithium
- Stone in the Water
- As Long As I Can See You
- Lost in Space
- Busy Man
- What Are We Gonna Do Now?
- Do You Dream?
- My Little Red Book
- Allison Smith
- The Face at the Window
- Our Love Is the Sea
UPC: 782706673749
Label: Think Like A Key Rec
Release Date: 5.26.23
Format: LP Vinyl