Second Hand’s debut is an unnerving and unswerving journey. Mixing the immediacy of a garage band with the pomp and complexity of what would, a few years later, come to be called prog, this still sounds like the landmark recording it was.
Inventive and driven from the explosive opener, A Fairy Tale, Reality’s mash of these seemingly polarised musical sensibilities is no easy listening. The word ‘grower’ could have been invented for this album. It takes a while for Ken Elliot’s prog wailing to sink in, particularly on the brilliant Mainliner, but when it does, it
