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01. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Queen Matilda
02. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Something Like You
03. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - And Luna
04. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - X Hits the Spot
05. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - The Prize
06. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Undecided [Reprise]
07. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Glynys and Jaqui
08. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - It's Harvest Time
09. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Loaded Man
10. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Hocken's Hey
11. MICHAEL HEAD & THE STRANDS - Fontilan
ARTIST
TITLE
The Magical World of The Strands
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MEGAUK 024LP MEGAUK 024LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/14/2025

2025 repress. Highly-anticipated vinyl represses of this stone-cold classic. Now comes with new gold foil embossed artwork. After a couple of demos for the French promoter who paired him with his childhood hero Love's Arthur Lee in 1992, Pale Fountains and Shack legend Michael Head entered a Liverpool recording studio the following year, with a new project in mind, The Strands. Michael teamed up with his brother and lifelong companion, John, his long-time drummer Iain Templeton and two new recruits, Michelle Brown on bass and Les Roberts on flute. The recording sessions would last two years and were only halted because Michael was offered a new major label deal. A deal, not for his current work, but for him to record as Shack again. So it came to be that Stephane Bismuth, the French promoter, was left with 100 or so minutes of a thwarted project, only a third of which had made it to the mixing studio in Sheffield in the summer of '95. Patch-working and weaving rough mixes and sketches -- by engineer Steve Powell, made in Liverpool -- with completed mixes by producer Mark Coyle who had hired an arranger and string section for sessions in Sheffield, Stephane Bismuth founded a new label Megaphone and finally released The Magical World of The Strands, in autumn of 1997.