The SEEDS – FUTURE – US 1st ORIG Press w/ 3 Inserts GNP CRESCENDO 2038 EX Psych

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The SEEDS: “Future”

LABEL: GNP CRESCENDO

Label Number: GNPS-2038

- Rare US 1st pressing from 1967

- Comes in heavy gatefold jacket

- Comes with all 3 Inserts included

- Amazing condition.

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint – beautiful preserved copy without any damages. Shiny and glossy surface. Top copy.

Gatefold Jacket: Excellent – without any damages or splits. Has solid thick and fully readable spine/ straight edges/ sharp corners.

3 Separate Inserts: Excellent ~ Mint. One insert with the flowers has one flower picture cut out, hence EX grading. Other two inserts are perfect.  

Some words on this issue: SEEDS: “Future” (GNP Crescendo – GNP-2038) This album is just fantastic. Here the band had the audacity to experiment with record company money and studio downtime in order to squeeze out an utterly noncommercial but amazing disc that defines a isolated spot in space and time, alienating them from their garage pop audience but giving them instead all the underground credibility and a chance to align themselves with a new sound that would secure them a place in history, at least as far as my personal musical history is concerned. Saxon writes in the inner-sleeve essay "Originations of the Flower Generation" "...The farmer lives by the elements alone, the sun, the rain, and the earth, but the earth needs its seeds to sow the flower generation of the leaf and crying there on the earth below". It's heady stuff, the droning organ riffage, passionate sneering garage vocals of Saxon, fuzzed out guitars strung out on whatever was available, all of these elements permeates incessantly throughout the whole of the disc. The leadoff single, "A Thousand Shadows" is a fuzz-out and the rest of the album gives way to a very strange quest to sound complex. The complexities begin with the album cover with its gatefold and flower cut-outs and lushly printed photos, a Saxon-penned essay, all the works and no expenses spared. The music on the other hand displays a band allowed to run amok in a studio with the label footing the cost. This leads to a bizarre glee that permeates this album, from its whimsical and bewildering array of sound effects and exotic instruments, to the ultimately charming and naive playing and singing. This is a sophisticated package with a gatefold, which includes lyrics over pastel sunflowers. Three colorful pages come inside the album, including two beautiful photos of the group along with single flowers representing the songs on the disc with instructions: "Cut out paste on whatever". Like mentioned already, three colorful pages come inside the album, of which the “Flower” insert with the “Cut Out/ Paste On/ Wherever” instructions, one flower picture has been gently cut out, so for the inserts graded therefore at EX. The rest is all perfect, killer LP with totally no filler. A true classic.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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