Beatles: Love ...I'm freaking out....George Martin has made the best Beatles mix tape ever...currently trying to get my head around it...mind slightly fried round the edges...the insane super heavy metal psychedelia of the Being For The Benefit of Mt Kite/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter coda is stoned BBC Workshop perfection...sitars and backwards masked vocals buzz and swirl throughout...the flotsum and jetsum of the Beatles universe washing up on the cast iron shore...a dark kelidoscopic miasma of forgotten voices and lost chords...a thick, ghostly fog shrouds the entire LP...it is a curtain call for pop music...you have been listening to...it's like the moment 'She Loves You' appears in the 'All You Need Is Love' coda, stretched to an entire LP... I've just re-wound Strawberry Fields Forever a dozen times trying to spot every snatch of music which bubbles up from from it's crazed aural soup...oh, man...

Normal service will be resumed shortly. 'Proper' review to follow...

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