and laud it over us as the most glamorous, literary, exotic, and romantic of pop groups EVER! More addictive than laudanum and absinthe! And credit has to be given to everyone involved in putting this whole package together. It creates the context for the Wild Swans' spectacular return, which is half the battle if you ask me. Labels like Cherry Red and LTM have too released some glorious salvage projects from the early ‘80s, and I would cheerfully get on my knees and say a prayer of thanks for them (Blue Orchids, Stockholm Monsters, Nightingales, and so on). Yet, the packaging has occasionally left something to be desired. This is something the Kent, Blood And Fire, Soul Jazz people are so good at, and thank god the Wild Swans have got the lavish, opulent packaging they so deserve. If you need any final prompt, then here's what Bill Drummond has to say on the sleeve: “Not only was the Revolutionary Spirit by far the best single that we put out at Zoo but, in their short life, The Wild Swans captured that young man's idealistic vision thing, that yearning for a better world thing, better than any bunch of English young men since the Brotherhood first put paint to canvas back in the 1850s. Over-romanticised, of course, but we always need some of that.”

Amen to that! Now please contact the label at www.renascent.co.uk and get yourself a copy of this wonderful record. Trust me! .