very limited gold lp + download (500 only) the second of three ground breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk.a much-loved opus with a side-long concept piece. a bona fide inspirational rock classic. and a second side that delivers the mighty ‘cherry red’, mcphee’s take on the beatles’ ‘a day in the life’, a sideswipe at junk food and a glorious interpretation of john lee hooker’s ‘groundhogs blues’. remastered and packaged with bonus tracks of out-takes from the original sessions that spawned this spontaneous monster. “supercharged, fractured and raging.” mojo // “tony mcphee has turned to anarchic paranoid battlegrounds of the mind for inspiration,” melody maker // “both musically and lyrically, ’split’ speaks for a lost time, a nomad time when ideals took to the hoof and musicians stayed on the road rather than confront the fact that the '60s 'war' had been lost.” julian cope // “murky, fuzzy, and wisely esoteric.” allmusic
very limited gold lp + download (500 only) the second of three ground breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk.a much-loved opus with a side-long concept piece. a bona fide inspirational rock classic. and a second side that delivers the mighty ‘cherry red’, mcphee’s take on the beatles’ ‘a day in the life’, a sideswipe at junk food and a glorious interpretation of john lee hooker’s ‘groundhogs blues’. remastered and packaged with bonus tracks of out-takes from the original sessions that spawned this spontaneous monster. “supercharged, fractured and raging.” mojo // “tony mcphee has turned to anarchic paranoid battlegrounds of the mind for inspiration,” melody maker // “both musically and lyrically, ’split’ speaks for a lost time, a nomad time when ideals took to the hoof and musicians stayed on the road rather than confront the fact that the '60s 'war' had been lost.” julian cope // “murky, fuzzy, and wisely esoteric.” allmusic
very limited gold lp + download (500 only) the second of three ground breaking albums by the ultimate power trio who morphed blues into hard rock and spawned punk.a much-loved opus with a side-long concept piece. a bona fide inspirational rock classic. and a second side that delivers the mighty ‘cherry red’, mcphee’s take on the beatles’ ‘a day in the life’, a sideswipe at junk food and a glorious interpretation of john lee hooker’s ‘groundhogs blues’. remastered and packaged with bonus tracks of out-takes from the original sessions that spawned this spontaneous monster. “supercharged, fractured and raging.” mojo // “tony mcphee has turned to anarchic paranoid battlegrounds of the mind for inspiration,” melody maker // “both musically and lyrically, ’split’ speaks for a lost time, a nomad time when ideals took to the hoof and musicians stayed on the road rather than confront the fact that the '60s 'war' had been lost.” julian cope // “murky, fuzzy, and wisely esoteric.” allmusic
