FOREVER AMBER The Love Cycle LP/1969 UK/ULTRA-RARE PSYCH POP/Zombies/Left Banke

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FOREVER AMBER 'The Love Cycle' LP (Spain, Guerssen, Catalogue #GUESS164) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2020 Guerssen label LP edition of absolutely ULTRA RARE (a copyright protection edition of 99 copies only) and LEGENDARY 1969 UK Zombies style Psych Pop album entitled The Love Cycle by Forever Amber (originally released in 1969 in the UK on the band's own Advance label.) The one VG+ copy that turned up on Discogs sold $6,637.15 (five thousand British pounds) back in 2017. Here now, at last, is a far more affordable LP edition/option.

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(NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!)

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)  

Guerssen Records present a reissue of Forever Amber's The Love Cycle, originally released in 1969. A holy grail item for psychedelic pop aficionados, Forever Amber's The Love Cycle is, along with Dark and the first Complex album, one of a triumvirate of must-have private pressings from the UK. Sounding like a blend of Pet Sounds (1966) and Odessey & Oracle (1968) but with a charming, homemade, lo-fi vibe, The Love Cycle was a concept album masterminded by talented songwriter/arranger John M. Hudson (a kind of Brian Wilson figure), who found in Cambridge band Forever Amber the perfect vehicle for his songwriting ideas. The Love Cycle was recorded in the summer of 1968 at a makeshift studio, located in the basement of a music shop. Consisting of a song-suite revolving around the meeting, courtship, and break-up of a young couple, the result was a stunning album filled with heavenly vocal harmonies, electric harpsichord and memorable hooks, including some intense psychedelic moments (the heavy phasing of "The Dreamer Flies Back" and more). Released in 1969 as a private edition of 99 copies, The Love Cycle remained buried until its discovery in the late '80s by psychedelic collectors. Bootlegged several times, the first official reissue came in 2007 thanks to David Wells/Tenth Planet. Out of print for several years, Guerssen Records a new vinyl reissue of this essential psych album. Original artwork in backflaps sleeve; includes color insert with rare photos and detailed liner notes by David Wells. RIYL: Zombies, Beatles, Beach Boys, Left Banke, Honeybus, Bee Gees.

- Guerssen Records present a reissue of Forever Amber's The Love Cycle, originally released in 1969.
- Sounding like a blend of Pet Sounds (1966) and Odessey & Oracle (1968) but with a charming, homemade, lo-fi vibe, The Love Cycle was a concept album masterminded by talented songwriter/arranger John M. Hudson (a kind of Brian Wilson figure),
- Original artwork in backflaps sleeve; includes color insert with rare photos and detailed liner notes by David Wells.
- "One of the dozen best British pop albums of the late Sixties" --Mojo.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:        

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