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Previously unavailable on a standalone CD, now featuring extra bonus tracks of home demos and alternate versions! HERE ARE THE NOTES FROM THE ORIGINAL 2017 PRESS RELEASE. - This Kentish quartet have now been kicking out keen psych-pop nuggets since 2010, over the course of four albums and several 45s, but vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Allan Crockford's illustrious past and parallel present, as bassist with a roll call of the greatest British bands of the past 30+ years – The Prisoners, The James Taylor Quartet, The Prime Movers, The Solarflares, Graham Day & The Forefathers – seems to have, weirdly, done 'em no favours. And in an age when peeps of a certain age are going goo-goo googly-eyed over the XTC back catalogue, rediscovering all manner of 60s psych-pop and garage treats, and lionising such moderne combos as Thee Oh Sees and Tame Impala, that the Galileo 7 haven’t reaped comparable plaudits seems just plain stoopid...French rock’n’roll maven Phillippe Migrenne, the former manager of Jesse ‘Hammersmith Gorillas’ Hector AND Tav Falco, is a hard fella to impress and he recently asked whether I’d seen the Galileo 7, as he caught ‘em by chance in Paris and had been blown away – “I mean,” he said, “there aren’t many bands who can casually knock off a brilliant version of ‘Astronomy Domine’…” That should give you some idea of Allan’s six-string prowess, and what’s more he’s got the vox and songwriting chops to go with it. Of course, moving from bass to centre stage is really just completing the circle, Allan having initially been the embryonic Prisoners’ guitarist, with Graham Day holding down the bottom end, and he also played six-string with Johnny & The Bandits, Goodchilde and The Stabilisers.
Tracklist
1. Cold Hearted Stowaway
2. One Lie at a Time
3. Mystery Train
4. Too Much Choice
5. The Mask
6. Live for Yesterday
7. You Tear My Mind Wide Open
8. The God of Gaps
9. The Habit Machine
10. Everything Keeps Coming Round Again
11. Your Face Tomorrow
12. Nobody Knows Anything
13. The Girl in the Glass Case (Instrumental Edit)
*BONUS TRACK* 14. You Tear My Mind Wide Open (Home Demo)
*BONUS TRACK* 15. The Mask (Original Version)
*BONUS TRACK* 16. Everything Keeps Coming Round Again (Home Demo)
*BONUS TRACK* 17. The God of Gaps (Band Demo)
*BONUS TRACK* 18. On Lie at a Time (Band Demo)
*BONUS TRACK* 19. Live for Yesterday (Home Demo)
*BONUS TRACK* 20. Grown Up