- Record Label: Snapper UK
- Release Date: Mar 17, 2015
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MojoMar 20, 2015Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky is a fitting celebration of a band that, 50 years after the release of their debut, remain utterly unrepentant. [Mar 2015, p.107]
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 20, 2015Their story is one of the great oversights of rock'n'roll and it's a joy to see it curated with such care. [Apr 2015, p.106]
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MagnetMar 20, 2015The whole bloody history of England's greatest cult act unfolds, rendering obscurity ultimately noble and rewarding. [No. 118, p.61]
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Mar 20, 2015Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky vividly illustrates what a wild ride those 50 years were.
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Mar 20, 2015It’s astonishing that they managed to come up with several of the most thrilling pieces of primal UK R’n’B, before going on to invent the rock opera, following one of the more creatively intriguing examples of ’60s pop’s transition from mod to psychedelia.
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Mar 20, 2015The acid test for long-term fans is how good the two bonus discs are. They shouldn’t be disappointed.
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Mar 20, 2015The Pretties were impatient modernists, carrying that blues zeal to psychedelia (1967's "Defecting Grey"), rock opera (ahead of the Who, on 1968's S.F. Sorrow) and progressive rock (1970's Parachute) with spectacular if commercially dire results. This grand box takes that tale, across 11 studio albums and a feast of extras, up to the present day.