Edgar Broughton Band - Bandages 1975

After five years, five albums, and a pair of Top 40 singles, the Edgar Broughton Band left the Harvest label. Three years would pass between 1973's Oora, their last album for Harvest, and Bandages, their first and final set for the Nems label. It was to be the band's swan song, as the Edgar Broughton Band broke up six months after the its release. (A live set, recorded during their farewell tour, would appear in 1979, just in time for the core of the band to reappear as the Broughtons). Obviously, this was an exceptionally unsettled period, but you'd never know it from listening to this extraordinary set. Comprising 11 tracks, Bandages explores an eclectic variety of musical styles, although the careful sequencing creates such a masterful flow, it's only when you reach the end that the wide sweep of music becomes clear. AMG.

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