Tracks Side 1:

1. The Castle (2:55)

2. Out Of Confusion (2:09)

3. The Witch (3:03)

4. Sweet Dry Biscuits  (2:52)

5. California Dreamin' (4:00)

6. Golden Lakes (5:12)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Not So Sweet Dreams (5:00)

2. Is She Just A Dream (4:33)

3. Blind Girl (3:46)

4. The Donkey (10:42)

Listen At YouTube:

Not so much a footnote as a toenail clipping in the annals of forgotten Deram label worthies, ’Igginbottom are known only to the privileged few as the Ronnie Scott-endorsed quartet which provided the first sighting of Allan Holdsworth in 1969. Their name may have led audiences to expect a brutalist meat-and-two- veg combo in the Stackwaddy vein; nothing could have prepared them for the preoccupied, jazzy insularity and pin-drop quietude of ’Igginbottom’s Wrench.

In an era of Marshall stacks and Big Muffs, Holdsworth and fellow ’Igginbottom guitarist Steven Robinson favoured intelligently-arranged tone clusters performed with no amp distortion and the treble rolled off. At times, as in Sweet Dry Biscuits, they sound like The Magic Band if Sun Ra had been cracking the whip instead of Beefheart.

The first revelation from this reissue is that Holdsworth patently emerged from the womb with his unreasonable talent fully formed. A mere 21 in 1969, he was already capable of unleashing those dazzling note flurries of dancing fluency that still make fellow guitarists lob their Les Pauls into the Thames. The second revelation is that he had a wonderfully appealing singing voice: check the sighing ennui of Golden Lakes and Not So Sweet Dreams. Who knew?
(by Marco Rossi/rockasteria.blogspot.com)

Steve Robinson - Guitar, Vocals
Allan Holdsworth - Guitar, Vocals
Mick Skelly - Bass
Dave Freeman - Drums

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