Magic Hour - Peel Session (1995)

Considering that I only started this blog to share the 30 or so rare unreleased albums that I'd collected over the years, this album marks my 500th post, and so it's fitting that it's from one of my favourite neo-psyche band of the 90's.
After the release of Magic Hour's debut album, the excellent 'No Excess Is Absurd', many of its songs were featured on the John Peel radio show, which led to the band being invited down to Maida Vale studios to record a session for the show. They played three songs from their forthcoming album 'Will They Turn You On Or Will They Turn On You', including a superlative 20 minute version of 'Passing Words', and an early version of 'Jonathan And Charles' entitled 'Another Day Like Today'. To this session I've added a couple of tracks that they gifted to a compilation album from their Twisted Village record label, completing this mopping-up of hard to find recordings from this greatly under-rated band.      

Track listing

01 I Had A Thought (John Peel session 1994) 
02 Another Day Like Today (aka 'Jonathan And Charles') (John Peel session 1994)  
03 Passing Words (John Peel session 1994) 
04 Untitled (from 'Marvelous Sound Forms: Twisted Village Archives, Vol. 1' 1999)
05 Something Else #2 (from 'Marvelous Sound Forms: Twisted Village Archives, Vol. 1' 1999)

Listening to this again today, I've decided that a re-jigged running order gives a better flow. If you've already downloaded it then see if you agree.