An essential release for fans of '60s UK psychedelia. Contains all the great works by the songwriting genius John Pantry - plus a horde of wonderful demos. The double CD version has even more tracks. John Pantry had a sophisticated writing style that elevated him above his peers.... from the super-charged thrust of Try a Little Sunshine and Spare A Shilling... to the brittle and melodic acid ballads like Red Chalk Hill and Smokey Wood Air. A song like Upside Down has a hymnal style to it. Listen to the chord changes... almost funereal. Pantry eventually rejected the rock n roll lifestyle and is now a vicar in Essex. You can hear him on Premier Christian Radio... but that's another life and another story. I had some cassettes of his recent hymns (he's still composing) - but 99.9% of all trace of psych has, unsurprisingly, been washed away. Funnily enough though - even though i found his hymns uninspiring... there was a tiny lingering vestige of his former sound (but only about 0.1% sadly).