Review: Pink Floyd's early era is celebrated on this double LP set, Transmissions, It was a time when they recorded some well regarded sessions for FM radio broadcast and was around legendary albums including A Saucerful Of Secrets - the swansong of the increasingly ill Syd Barrett, replaced by David Gilmour during its making - Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle. Plenty of highlights for fans old and new can be found here, with raw and lo-fi recordings of tunes like 'Daybreak' next to heady melodies and acoustic steaming on the much more organic and spring-day like 'Nightmare (Cymbaline)'. It all comes sounding great across two limited edition slabs of clear vinyl.
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