Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow (MFSL)

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New Vinyl Record – Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

• Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Jefferson AirplaneSurrealistic Pillowon numbered, limited edition 180-gram 45 RPM mono 2LP!
• 1/4″ / 15 ips analog mono master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
• Acid-rock experimentalism and folk-based arrangements yield mysteriousness, darkness, and beauty
• Grace Slick’s clarion-call singing matches virtuosic playing by band and guest Jerry Garcia

They were the best of times for Jefferson Airplane, and the good vibes are heard throughout the band’s iconicSurrealistic Pillow. The group’s first album with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden, the 1967 effort bowed as the first psychedelic-rock breakout from the potent San Francisco scene, climbing to No. 3 and boasting two Top 10 singles.

The effort ranked byRolling StoneNo. 146 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time eradicated boundaries and opened up creative vistas for a parade of likeminded artists that followed. Allegedly given its name by Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who remarked that the music was as surrealistic as a pillow, Jefferson Airplane’s sophomore effort remains renowned for its inimitable combination of collective symmetry, concise melodic frameworks, and razor-edged assertiveness.