Various Artists: Pale Shades Of Grey - Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges 1969-1976 (Vinyl LP)

Now-Again Records is completing the trilogy started with Forge Your Own Chains and followed by Tickets for Doomsday with Pale Shades Of Grey: another batch of rare, largely uncompiled - and sometimes barely heard - heavy psych-rock. Pounding drums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bring you up on a downer.

Pale Shades Of Grey, as the title hints, is perhaps the most contemplative of the series, heavy on ruminations of dark themes of love, death, pain and triumph, as performed by high school and college bands, Brazilian intellectuals, Nigerian rockers and even an Irish pub band from Michigan. A unique and compelling listen, and surely a worthy companion for these times.

1. Ant Trip Ceremony - Pale Shades of Grey
   
2. Heaven- Down By The Ocean
   
3. Christophe - Lo Prego E Preghero (Je Sais Que C'est L’ete)
   
4. Witch - Evening of My Life
   
5. Pat's People - December Sequel
   
6. 5 Revolutions - Poor Man
   
7. David Lee Jr. - Love Parable
   
8. Joe Lano and Ed Whiting – Faith
   
9. Jose Mauro - Dois Ruas
   
10. Ton E Sergio - Vou Sair Do Cateveiro
    
11. Ofege – Sorrow
    
12. Image - Out Station
    
13. Image - Everybody’s Laughing
    
14. Witch - Evening of My Life