MELLOW CANDLE

Swaddling Songs DERAM

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Sought-after sole release from deceptively feisty Irish prog-folk quintet. Early 70s progressive folk records are among the most valuable vinyl treasures out there – and the sole studio outing by this Irish five-piece can fetch £2,000 in its original vinyl incarnation. While many similar collectors’ holy grails from that era are valuable due to supply and demand – independent acts used to press up fewer than 100 copies of an album to avoid purchase tax, so there are barely any left in existence – Mellow Candle’s Swaddling Songs was well distributed through Decca’s Deram imprint, and it’s the quality of this record, appreciated by reviewers at the time and hidden-gem seekers more recently, that has made it so prized and worthy of this remastered vinyl reissue now. The focal point…

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