The stunning second album from Procol Harum – a record that takes everything that's wonderful about their debut, and pushes it even farther – to a very unique space that's completely the group's own! The songcraft here is magical – with great work from the team of vocalist Gary Brooker and Keith Reid – and the production continues the group's unusual blend of bluesy elements with these dramatic, ambitious arrangements – never pop orchestrations, but just these ways of putting together a tune that make familiar fuzz guitar, piano, and organ explode in really new sort of ways. The whole thing's wonderful – hardly any hits, but all wonderful songs throughout – and titles include "Quite Rightly So", "Shine On Brightly", "Skip Softly", "Magdalene", "Glimpses Of Nirvana", "Grand Finale", and "In The Autumn Of My Madness". Incredible 3CD package features bonus postcards, poster, and full mixes of the album in
stereo and mono (the latter never on CD) – plus 20 more bonus tracks that include "Monsieur Armand", "Seem To Have The Blues", "Long Gone Geek", "In Held Twas In I", "In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence", and "Ramblin On" – plus rare alternate versions and BBC material too.