Life After Life - S/T, UK private folk rock rarity

	£		112
	$		148

The Item For Sale Is:

Artist: Life After Life

Title: Life After Life

Release info: Private Pressing (SRT 5KL 453) UK Original Issue LP + insert

Condition (Sleeve 1st) : EX/EX

Track List:

Journey Home

Change Of Heart

Look Ahead

Grieving Man

Christmas Day

Red Roofs

Many Times

Dreamweaver

England Sleeps

Life After Life

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Very hard to find mid-eighties melodic progressive album with some folky touches and also a nice spacey feel at times, lovely female vocals throughout, nice guitar, actually has a similar sought of feel to the wonderful Carol Of Harvest LP, not as good as that obviously (what is?) but definitely has a similar sound at times.

Condition:

Sleeve: Pretty strong, especially for a private pressing. The sleeve looks like a professional job, being made of thin glossy card.

Being predominately white this obviously has a strong potential for wear but the glossy finish to the card has helped to keep it nice and clean. The front is very clean with no tears or writing anywhere, there’s a couple of very very light creases which mainly are due to the thinness of the card. There’s also a very light circular depression where the record sits, nothing that’s even approaching ringwear it’s just that a slight impression mark can be seen, this wouldn’t be mentioned by most people.

The rear sleeve is in similar nice shape, very clean with no tears or writing anywhere, again some very very light creases but nothing serious and again the extremely light circular impression where the record sits, if stored correctly then this impression shouldn’t get any worse.

The top seam is totally unworn.

The bottom seam has a very small crease right in the centre which in time could develop into a split (nowhere near split at the moment though), care will be needed that this doesn’t get any worse but that apart the seam is totally unworn.

The spine is still wide, clean and square, totally unworn with all of the writing clearly readable.

Record: The record itself is also in fine shape, it’s obviously one that hasn’t been played much and has been well cared for when it has been out of the cover. Like most private pressings the vinyl itself is thinish and not really of the best quality but visually under normal light it looks just great, very clean with no visible marks at all. When held under a harsh light there are a few extremely light hairline marks visible, these are the type made by taking the record in and out of the sleeve and are totally inaudible. When placed upon a turntable the spindle hole is extremely tight, always a sign of a lightly played record.

The insert is present and in good shape. It has pictures of the band one one side and lyrics on t’other. It’s made of this glossy paper which is very clean and with no tears writing or creases anywhere.

Both labels are perfect, very clean with no writing, tears or stickers and no visible spindle wear. As a testament to how sparingly the record has been played there is a small piece of flash vinyl sitting on the spindle hole on side one, this sort of thing is soon knocked off when the record has been played a few times and the spindle hole loosens a little bit

When played the record lives up to it’s high visual appearance with a nice clean clear sound right across the full dynamic range. There is no nasty surface noise to spoil your enjoyment of this great record and even between tracks is pretty much silent although there are some very light crackles between tracks on side two, nothing which interferes with the music though. The sound throughout is free from any distortion or groove wear and there was nothing which spoilt my enjoyment of the music when I played this album.

If you do decide to bid for this item I wish you luck and if not, well, thanks for looking and remember to look at my other items for sale you may find something more to your taste there.

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