’Psychoderelict’ is Pete Townshend’s sixth studio album, and is his most recent album to date. Originally released on CD back in 1993, it is now being released without dialogue and only vinyl for the first time ever. The storyline draws on elements and ideas from ‘Lifehouse’, and features character ‘Ray High’, a washed up rock star who has lived as a recluse for a couple of years dreaming about a musical project that he abandoned years before called Gridlife.
“Psychoderelict” is a concept album written, originally produced and engineered by Pete Townshend. Some characters and issues presented in this work were continued in Townshend’s later opus The Boy Who Heard Music, first presented on the Who’s eleventh studio album “Endless Wire” (2006) and then adapted as a rock musical. The follow-up to “The Iron Man” (1989), but despite having recorded several demos, a bicycle accident in September 1991 forced him to delay work on the album until his wrist was able to heal properly. It is structured more like a radio play than the more “traditional” rock operas Townshend had recorded in the past.
Reissued on black vinyl, and without the spoken word, experience the album for the first time ever in this new half-speed master format. Pre-order for release on 18th October.
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