Nico UK Reissue LP The end VG+ Island ILPS9311 Velvet Underground Art Rock Eno
UK Reissue LP released in the 1970's on Island Records. Cat: ILPS 9311. 
It is one of the most entrenched visions in the rock critic's vocabulary; Nico as doomed valkyrie, droning death-like through a harsh gothic monotone, a drained beauty pumping dirges from her harmonium while a voice as old as dirt hangs cobwebs round the chords. In fact she only made one album which remotely fit that bill this one and it's a symbol of its significance that even the cliché emerges as a thing of stunning beauty. Her first album following three years of rumor and speculation, The End was consciously designed to highlight the Nico of already pertinent myth. Stark, dark, bare, and frightening, the harmonium dominant even amid the splendor of Eno's synthesized menace, John Cale's childlike piano, and Phil Manzanera's scratchy, effects-whipped guitar, it is the howling wind upon wuthering heights, deathless secrets in airless dungeons, ancient mysteries in the guise of modern icons.

Tracks : It has not taken long/ Secret side/ You forgot to answer/ Innocent and vain/ Valley of the kings/ We've got the gold/ The end/ Das lied der Deutsche.

  There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks and very light scratches that cause some crackles and is in VG+ condition. Cover has a sticker stain on front, light ring wear and some surfaceing tearing on front bottom edge and is in VG+ condition.

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