"Hooker's arrangements are truly beautiful; a simple, swinging pop song like Weather Girl exists somewhere between the Doors and Curtis Mayfield, whereas The Bible ("If they're knocking the Bible, be sure they are bent/ Just see and you'll understand the book is heaven sent") has the propulsive drive of a pained George Harrison ballad crushed up against some of Neil Young's freeform, string-banging joy. Then there's The Sea, with its rolling religious allegories and the remarkable Free which marries a growling hard rock throb to a vampirically groovy synth line. Hooker's masterpiece is Forge Your Own Chains, which is part conga-led, lounge-funk soul and part, questing psychedelic dream. To think this entirely individual worldview would have once languished, unloved, in a series of under-the-racks cutout bins..." 2015 reissue of this legendary private press album from 1972.

Sealed.

• 1 The Sea
• 2 Fall In Love
• 3 A Stranger's Smile
• 4 Weather Girl
• 5 This Thing
• 6 Forge Your Own Chains
• 7 I'm Leaving You
• 8 The Truth
• 9 The Bible
• 10 Falling Asleep