Julian Cope - Friar TuckThe Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpools Blondest. So inhale the garage fuzz dub of 'R in the Hood'; the mantric powerdrive of 'Four Jehovahs in a Volvo Estate'; the sentimental Pete Burns lamentations of 'In Spungent Mansions' and who could resist the affectionate micro trolling of 'Will

Quietly reserved

the music is set to a Pueblo drum's metapulsing Pan-American heartbeat

Recorded in 1960 during the My Favorite Things sessions

EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett

Despite the fact that this is a live recording

” says Edkins

Well It’s

band photos and label scans

it comes on green and blue swirl vinyl in a striking fluoro green and neon blue sleeve by designer Marc Jones

‘Free Form’ in 1960

bassist Lewis Wharton and drummer Virgil Howe

paved the road ahead