Marc Bolan Albums (2)
What The Critics Say
Cat Black is one more in the long succession of albums that dip into the 1981 You Scare Me to Death collection, created by former Bolan manager Simon Napier-Bell from a clutch of 25-year-old demos, and granted fresh life by some recent overdubbing. Controversial at the time -- the unaccompanied Bolan was of far more interest than the latter day sessionmen -- it was nevertheless a skillfully arranged job, updating a desperately primitive sound for then-modern ears and, as an album in its own right, the performances are at least listenable. What they are not is a representation of what Bolan himself might have done with the same songs, had he ever chosen to. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
'The Beginning of Doves'
Release Date 1/1/1974
Tracks 20
Label Track Record
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What The Critics Say
In 1972, a clutch of incomplete demos and outtakes were unearthed from Marc Bolan's mid-'60s vault and sent into the world as the (hastily withdrawn) Hard on Love album. Two years later, Track Record released the proceedings as Beginning of Doves. The tracks comprise both sides of the 1966 "Hippy Gumbo" single, the projected follow-up "Jasper C. Debussy," and a series of largely unaccompanied demos recorded by Bolan and producer Simon Napier-Bell during one breathless session at London's Kingsway Studios in October 1966. One then leaps ahead to the following fall, for songs taped over two separate demo sessions by Bolan and his T. Rex partner Steve Peregrine-Took. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
