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This album is almost perfect! Containing some of Hammill's best songs, beautifully arranged. Here he experimented with the ARP synth, especially on the majestic "(No More) The Sub Mariner". He would further go down this road on the excellent "The Future Now" album. The song itself is quite superb, lyrically dealing with looking back on childhood and considering self identity and faith. "Faint-Heart and The Sermon" is a mighty cathedral of sound, with the mellotron adding to the Byzantine grandeur. "Tapeworm" is the nearest to VdGG here. "Again" is a typically heartfelt song, full of Hammill emotionmore…. He does this very well! "Gog", which was played by VdGG is mercilesss in its intensity. Pummelling drums by Guy Evans and a huge, brooding harmonium played by Hammill himself.

I said an almost perfect album! Where the album is let down for me is the 10 minute "Magog(In Bromine Chambers)". This was Hammill at his most extreme and experimental. Using musique concrete ideas to produce a deeply unsettling and darkly ambient soundtrack, this is difficult listening. Only in those days could this sort of stuff be done! But I can easily forgive him this slight indiscretion, considering the quality of what has gone before.

Throughout, the lushness and complexity of the arrangements and production is gorgeous, enhanced to the max on this welcome remaster. This is probably one of the best sounding Hammill albums. Remarkable for the day, as the majority of it was recorded at his fledgling home studio Sofa Sound. The three bonus tracks are culled from a 1974 BBC session so the sound quality is very good. These are simply Hammill, voice and piano on two "In Camera" cuts and a VdGG track from "H to He Am The Only One". Quite magical they are too!

This is a significant part of Hammill's back catalogue, eight of which are being re-released over the next month or so. Now given a welcome spruce up "In Camera" has never sounded better, with worthy bonus tracks and fully detailed booklet with notes from the man himself. I would get the lot anyway!

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Peter Hammill - In Camera: Remastered & Expanded (2006) Retail CD

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