Description:	LP on 3 Lobed
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Three Lobed Recordings
	Price:	£19.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 03 April 2008.

Bardo Pond are back on Three Lobed with a long player of 70's sounding progressive psychedelic rock. 'Batholith' kind of wanders along pretty gently with smatterings of blues/garage rock and cool female vox that I haven't got a clue what they're saying. Mingus made me laugh yesterday when we were listening to this when he declared "It sounds like they don't get out much' The usual gorgeous deluxe packaging and numbered of 1049 copies.

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What their label says...

"Batholith" is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to Bardo Pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. That one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. The tracks included on "Batholith" range from previous live staples ("A Tune," one made 'famous' by opening Bardo's set at Terrastock II in San Francisco as joined by Roy Montgomery [and a recording of which was featured on the KFJC compilation "Live from the Devil's Triangle, Volume 2"]) to tracks the band recorded in John Peel sessions ("Slip Away"). Collected as a whole, these tracks form a fluid and cohesive album. "Batholith" is not just an exciting moment for long time Bardo Pond fans, but a great jumping on point for folks who are relatively new to their craft.

As per the Three Lobed standard, "Batholith" is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket Stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new artwork by John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger. The record will be from an edition of close to 1000 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax. Pre-orders will also be accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-044) of previously unreleased Bardo Pond material.