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It's a fun and accurate album title, Beautiful Debris, collecting the quite wonderful and indeed more often than not sweetly beautiful output of Blair 1523. The group only released an EP in its lifetime on a small English label; thankfully Spacemen 3/Spectrum mainman Sonic Boom heard it and was able to arrange for the release of Debris some time later. Compiling both the EP and unreleased tracks, it makes a solid case for Blair 1523 as underrated modern psych gods, mixing a fun kick-up-your-heels rave-up sense -- "Swell" is particularly great on this level -- with some drone feedback zone-outs to good effect. Lead singer Alan Duke has a fairly understated voice, but no more so than, say, Ian Brown and Tim Burgess, and unlike those others, Duke avoids whine in favor of pleasant wistfulness.

The other key member of the sextet was Andrew Jenkins, whose organ work fills out the songs perfectly, and on songs like "On the Rise," which tackles Madchester neo-psych and beats most of its more well-known practitioners at its own game, takes everything to a truly groovy level. Everyone else is at the least competent enough and at the most darn sharp with what they did. Simon "Floyd" Harris' opening guitar on "The Psych One" sets the rhythm and drone mood well, for example, leading into Jenkins' soothing keyboard flow and Duke's echoed, sighing singing, with Harris then peeling off some fine drones and snarls as the trance-like mood continues along. Things go from very good to downright great at the end, with the blissy drive of "Violins," the tense build to full band explosion on "Pale," and the final fantastic jam on "Slyde."

This remarkable band from the bucolic shire of Cornwall had a variety of strengths, from strong pop songwriting to a penchant for extended freakout jams, all of which is captured on this, the only record they made before sadly breaking up. To those few fortunate enough to have heard it, it remains an esoteric favorite.. Psychedelic swirl/drone pop Early Floyd/ Elevators sound by his amazing UK band. "This album is worth buying for the cover alone. Dripping with glassy pastels of brilliant greens, pinks, purples, yellows and blues, the art work complements a round of houka hits supremely. The music picks up where Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd left off in the '60s." - American Music Press This album is worth buying for the LP cover alone. Dripping with glassy pastels of brilliant greens, pinks, purples, yellows and blues, the art work complements a round of houka hits supremely. The music picks up where Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd left off in the '60s.

01. Fantasy Of Folk
02. The Psych One
03. On The Rise
04. Swell
05. Violins
06. Pale
07. Slyde
08. Untitled