This remastered version comes with four previously unreleased alternate takes – they are interesting from a historical perspective, but this is an album that needs no extras – the original in itself remains perfect in its unsurpassed completeness and complexity. Personally, I’ve always had a soft spot for the beautiful Ballerina and the enigmatic drama of the closing Slim Slow Slider. It is an album heavy with yearning, a great rich stew of a record that seems to be about everything and nothing, the past and the present, the permanent and the fleeting, the dream and the reality.Ĭhoose your own favourite from this hypnotic song cycle – the ecstatic Sweet Thing, the bewitching Madame George, the fluid Astral Weeks, the tangle of reminiscences that make up Cyprus Avenue. This is an album that after all these years still sounds warm, rich and luxurious and manages to simultaneously convey a sense of longing, a desire, an essence. There’s been so much written about this album over the past thirty odd years it’s hard to know where to begin or what to say that hasn’t already been said.
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