VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Pawn Hearts LP Pink Scroll Prog

	£		29
	$		38

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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

Pawn Hearts

Original UK LP released on Charisma Records in 1971. Gatefold sleeve. Includes insert (unfortunately this insert is rather tatty).

CAS 1051A-1U   /   CAS 1051B-1U

Van Der Graaf Generator's third album, Pawn Hearts was also its second most popular; at one time this record was a major King Crimson cult item due to the presence of Robert Fripp on guitar, but Pawn Hearts has more to offer than that. The opening track, "Lemmings," calls to mind early Gentle Giant, with its eerie vocal passages (including harmonies) set up against extended sax, keyboard, and guitar-driven instrumental passages, and also with its weird keyboard and percussion interlude, though this band is also much more contemporary in its focus than Gentle Giant.

Peter Hammill vocalizes in a more traditional way on "Man-Erg," against shimmering organ swells and Guy Evans' very expressive drumming, before the song goes off on a tangent by way of David Jackson's saxes and some really weird time signatures -- plus some very pretty acoustic and electric guitar work by Hammill and Fripp.

The monumental "Plague of Lighthouse Keepers," taking up an entire side of the LP, shows the same kind of innovation that characterized Crimson's first two albums. It features enough virtuoso posturing by everyone (especially drummer Guy Evans) to fill an Emerson, Lake & Palmer album of the same era, with a little more subtlety and some time wasted between the interludes. The almost operatic intensity of the singing and the overall performance carries you past the stretches that don't absolutely need to be here. The band was trying for something midway between King Crimson and Genesis, and came out closer to the former, at least instrumentally. Hammill's vocals are impassioned and involving, almost like an acting performance, similar to Peter Gabriel's singing with Genesis, but the lack of any obviously cohesive ideas in the lyrics makes this more obscure and obtuse than any Genesis release.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Lemmings (including cog)

Man-Erg

Side Two

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

Eyewitness

Pictures/Lighthouse

Eyewitness

S.H.M.

Presence Of The Night

Kosmos Tours

(Custard's) Last Stand

The Clot Thickens

Land's End

We Go Now

Released on 'Charisma Records' in 1971

Catalogue No. CAS 1051

Disc is in VG condition (surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (general wear)

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