Sold Date: September 12, 2020
Start Date: September 5, 2020
Final Price: £51.00 (GBP)
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Fraction - Moonblood LP & 10" Reissue MEX 026 Mexican Summer 2010 HEAVY PSYCH. Condition is New.

Legendary Christian heavy psych LP with bonus 10". Awesome cutaway sleeve with blood red translucent window.

A few short years ago, if you had wanted to listen to this record you would have had to buy a poor quality bootleg or spend upwards of £1,000 for one of the 200 copies that comprised the entire original 1971 pressing. LA-based Fraction were, in theory, a Christian-rock band, but, at times they sound like some seriously deranged and dangerous people. Tapping the same wave of down-tuned, bleakly heavy, savage comedown psych that informed contemporaries like  and , Fraction were a working-class group who would rehearse and record early in the morning before going to their day jobs. Thanks to that dedication there is a spacious sort of loneliness at the heart of the noise they make. The five songs that made up the original album were recorded live in a single three-hour session with no FX and no overdubs – Come Out of Her is positively demonic (and includes a neat little two-bar breakbeat at 2:03). Singer Jim Beach's ragged growl has been likened to Jim Morrison, but there's a desperation and anxiety present here that the handsome, wealthy son of a senior navy officer never had, while guitarist Don Swanson pushes the wah-wah and fuzz to the limit. Moon Blood is a brilliantly odd record, a snapshot of a time where Jesus-freak hippies could still remember what it felt like to have some angry toxins flooding through your brain. Naturally, the band never got anywhere and for decades barely anyone, bar the most obsessed, got to hear them. Until, happily, now.

Limited no. 800/1000. Unplayed and in mint condition all round.

Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class, signed for delivery.

Will send in a strong mailer sleeve with stiffeners.

Will combine and reduce cost for multiple purchases.

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