Groundhogs – Split (gold vinyl)

The second of three ground breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk. A much-loved opus with a side-long concept piece. A bona fide inspirational rock classic. Tony McPhee has turned to anarchic paranoid battlegrounds of the mind for inspiration, Melody Maker. And a second side that delivers the mighty Cherry Red, McPhees take on The Beatles A Day In the Life, a sideswipe at junk food and a glorious interpretation of John Lee Hookers Groundhogs Blues. Both musically and lyrically, Split speaks for a lost time, a nomad time when ideals took to the hoof and musicians stayed on the road rather than confront the fact that the ’60s ‘war’ had been lost. Julian Cope // Murky, fuzzy, and wisely esoteric. AllMusic. // Supercharged, fractured and raging. MOJO // Remastered and packaged with bonus tracks on the download (out-takes from the original sessions that spawned this spontaneous monster).