This is where you find a list of the current best selling titles in this category at CD Services – Nothing like your standard mainstream chart material, you’ll agree! For technical reasons we are not displaying these lists in descending numeric order, as a normal music chart would look, but then it’s not really meant to be a chart as such – Just an alphabetical listing that offers customers a working guide as to what the top selling titles in this genre currently are. The list size varies from department to department, starting at a ‘Top 20’ to cover the smaller categories and spanning up to a ‘Top 50’ (or more) for the bigger department in the shop

The first CD was good – very good! But, with only two minutes on the clock of the new one’s opening track ‘Brain Scan’, you can’t help but feel that this is going to be an absolute blinder – and it does not disappoint, for in that two minutes you hear Hawkwind, Gong & the Ozrics all rolled into one magnificent package. The track itself then begins to climb on waves of searing electric guitar, rolling drums, Blake-like space synths, rumbling bass, Gilli-style space whisper and Hawkwind-like crescendos – Just fantastic!!! For this album, Michael Blackman has been augmented by the space–whisper vocals of Renee Blackman, guest appearance from Starfield/Hawkwind synth musician Keith Kniveton, plus Steve Eyre on multi-moog synth. Yeh, but it’s the main man who takes the honours with some incendiary guitar work throughout and drum/bass work that sounds like a real rhythm section in action. Compositionally, it’s class and bite all the way, as you are taken to the stars on a journey of truly impressive proportions. Essentially all guitars, synths, bass and drums, it’s a largely instrumental ride and seriously impressive recording quality too. In the line of instrumental space/acid-rock inhabited by the likes of the Ozrics, Quimbys & Melting Euphoria, this album is right out at the front with the best of them, only, if anything, more direct and stronger, real driving space-rock as it should be heard. There is a crispness and sharpness to the production and the tracks sound composed rather than improvised – It’s Space-rock with purpose and direction, but above all, it has warmth, feeling, atmosphere and strength. The guitar and synths work is seriously impressive and there isn’t a track (or moment) on the album that is anything less than absolutely riveting - Impressive and then some!

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Featuring Alan Davey on bass and vocals with Simon House on synths and violin this CD burns long and loud into the starry night sky! The force and power is all here as the House factor really makes its presence felt throughout. It’s a sacrilegious thing to say perhaps, but some of this album wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the old Hawkwind ‘Warrior On The Edge Of Time’ album, as songs, guitar work, synths and a steaming rhythm section really deliver the goods, taking no prisoners as it goes. The album opens with two storming songs, followed by a red-hot six-minute instrumental, then comes the title track, and that is pure, almost mid-70’s Hawkwind. The really incredible thing here is the musical maturity that the album displays throughout - one that will make many people who may be expecting nothing more than a watered-down Motorhead, to gasp in amazement at what they actually discover. Compared to recent (and we’re talking last studio output) Hawkwind, ‘As Above’ is a class above it, and in a league of its own – in short, this album will surprise and delight the hell out of you! If you thought it was going to be a good album, then believe me, you were wrong – it’s a GREAT one!

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Sorry about the language but... bloody hell!! I mean to say... like, wow!!! What an album!!!! After a long, long wait from the incredible space-rock classic that was ‘SJU’, came ‘Tombolla’, and I can honestly say I wasn’t expecting this, and once you get over the initial shock, it’s superb! The shock part is: for the first couple of tracks, they’ve recreated a space-rock version of early seventies Jefferson Airplane, and it is that feel of the psychedelic early 70’s that pervades one hell of a lot of this album. There are 13 tracks on the disc, the longest clocking in at eight minutes, and it’s a largely song-based album with smoking Kaukonen-esque lead guitar throughout. From multi-harmony, full-sounding, psych-rock journeys through occasionally eclectic, almost early Dead style tracks, the spirit of the West Coast is never far away. Yet the album has a modern freshness to it that prevents it from sounding like some stale retro-trip. There’s even a touch of Pink Fairies, Mahogany Rush and more in there, with some seriously tasty electric slide, searing lead guitar and huge-sounding arrangements. By the time you get to the seven minutes of Pink Floyd-oriented space-rock that is the early 70’s UK-influenced track 6, you really feel you have one hell of an album in your hands – And you’d be right, because within its sphere, this CD is well varied and creatively composed, with it’s wealth of riches decidedly song-based, and that part is also pulled off magnificently, while the production and playing are top notch too. So, overall, this is a real winner - A total surprise, but a 100% certified gem that you never through you’d hear from this band – Magical!

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An instrumental solo CD from long time Hawkwind member Alan Davey, and for ‘Final Call’ he has created 10 fantastic instrumental cosmic trips, mixing atmospheric space-synth music and throbbing sequencer driven rhythms, combining space and dynamics in equal proportions. Using banks of swooping synth layers/melodies, organ, bass, ad percussion for the chugging Hawkwind-esque space-rock flows, and dreamy keyboard textures with occasional choral effects worthy of 70’s Tangerine Dream for the more celestial sound paintings, Davey has created a gem of an album that is equally essential for space-rock and synth/electronic fans alike. With not a wasted moment on the entire set, it’s the kind of album you will find yourself playing in the dark at night as much as for deep feeling atmospheres during the day - A simply awesome fifty minutes worth of psych soaked, electronic-based music.

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If I told you that this is an album of unreleased recordings made by the band between 1998 and 2002, you might think it was that sort of album that uses stuff not good enough to have appeared on any of the official albums. But when I tell you that, across its 9 tracks of driving space-rock, it is without doubt, the finest thing the band have ever committed to CD, then you might just wake up and want to read on – and so you should, because this is way hotter than anything you could have possibly expected from what is a truly great American band. The whole album oozes passion and commitment in the song writing and delivery departments, with a quality production and sound to back-up the band’s enthusiasm. To all intents and purposes is a true follow-up album, because every space-rock song just storms out of the speakers at engulfs you in a huge sound where the guitars are well to the fore, with synths swirling in classic space-rock fashion all over the horizon, plus excellent vocals that are absolutely perfectly placed in the overall mix. A strong sense of dynamics and solid, structured songs completes a package that you simply won’t ever tire of listening to - It’s one of the finest albums you’re going to hear this year, and it is so addictive, you’ll struggle to remove it from your player for a few months, at least. Stronger than Geoff Capes, tighter than the Big Brother house, and when played loud, guaranteed to have your eyes ablaze and your soul on fire. From start to finish – they simply shouldn’t be this good, and ought to come with a government health warning that addiction to this music may be a distinct possibility – astounding!

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Now this is good–very good! The first 4 tracks are ‘Spiral Galaxy’, ‘Forge Of Vulcan’, ‘Hall Of The Mountain Grill’ & ‘Kronoglide Skywise’, which should intrigue and delight you before you even put it on. But, musically, this is a really chilled-out, blissful, but solid sounding set of instrumental music with loads of flowing synth layers and some neat violin textures. The synths are the clear winners when it comes to musical space time, but the whole feel of the pieces is a good deal more organic than on the ‘Yasassim’ album with much more cohesion and flow as the tracks soar and glide. It’s just an album that you put on at any time of the day when you want something that’s going to provide the right amount of ambience and interest without being ‘wallpaper’ music at one end, or too symphonic at the other. Excellently produced and played, it’s highly recommended to ‘Synth’, ‘Space-Rock’ and ‘Ambient’ music fans alike.

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This is one seriously brilliant album with every track a total gem! It is the band’s 4^th album, and it swept to the top slot at CDS towers as soon as it was released! In a lifetime, we are lucky to have a band such as Porcupine Tree – but to get two such bands who probably don’t even know of each others existence, with leaders that probably come from totally different musical backgrounds, co-existing on an amazingly parallel plane, is nothing short of mind-blowing – And this is certainly the case on this fantastic album. ‘Love Is A Long Song’ is a stunning record with 8 excellently produced tracks with well laid out arrangements that all work to absolute perfection. So, put a smile on your face and joy in your heart, by bearing witness to a top class act with an album that oozes quality from every pore. There are moments of pure song-writing genius here - Songs with addictive hook-lines, soft, ethereal, atmospheric ballads with powerful lyrics and beautifully crafted instrumental arrangements. There are fantastic Floyd-styled guitar-led passages full of fuzzed-out, multi-tracked guitar leads with organ/synth chords providing thick melodic backdrops. The dynamic guitar-led arrangement also make you think of Porcupine Tree as the soaring guitars fly up to the heavens and burst into solos of super nova proportions and then develop into monumental instrumental infernos. Yes, it’s sixty-three minutes of seriously brilliant music people!

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By the time this album was released in 2002, KBA had become one of our biggest selling bands. This is a double album of music used for the film of the same name – One disc of songs and one of the instrumental score. Taking the song CD first -You get an almost complete album of 7 brand new KBA tracks, and we’re not talking disposable soundtrack gloop here – we’re talking a proper album – you know, real songs, real instrumentals – the full works! The psychedelic influences that make this band so special are well in evidence, only this time with a slightly darker mood and less aggressive feel to the material, but no less powerful than much of their previous material. All the tracks are, by and large, on the reflective side, more like those slightly melancholy tracks that Pink Floyd used to do in their film soundtracks such as ‘La Valleee’, with a similar sound and style it has to be admitted. It is a sort of mellower, atmospheric brew of progressive psychedelia, with touches of influences from early-mid seventies soundtrack-era Floyd. You’ve only got to cop an earful of ‘Wake Up 37’ to hear the Floyd influences come shining through, only fuller sounding and more atmospheric. The two songs from the American band Low are in keeping with the feel of the KBA compositions, as vocal layers weave webs around flowing guitar lines. Disc 2 is entirely instrumental and presumably features the electronic score from the film. This too is excellent and entirely engaging - A sort of giant, dark cosmic electronic work of quite enthralling and epic proportions. So overall, this is great value for money package for KBA and cosmic music fans alike.

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The bands’ 3rd album continues the Pink Floyd analogy, and it’s a mostly instrumental affair that has reached the ‘Meddle’ / ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ era. Some of the early passages have the sound and feel of the quiet parts of 'Echoes', while the song itself has definite echoes of all sorts of parts of ‘Dark Side’ Overall, this is a much mellower album than the previous two, with some great guitar/keyboard soundscapes along the way. The cosmic sound pools of track 5 (‘Passing Through The Photon Belt’) and continue on into track 6 (‘1000 Member Acid Army’) where rolling drum rhythms, synths, a dirty guitar riff and distant chanting emerge into the light. Amazing wah-wah guitar and space synth effects surge up alongside to take what is already a tremendously powerful piece of music into a sort of African-flavoured space-rock jam that closes in a glorious finale that features seven minutes of atmospheric space music. This continues into track 7 (‘Exit Ground Level’) and then the final track (‘Royal Subjects’) begins with a gorgeous textural guitar and keyboard passage, played in typically dynamic Floyd fashion, with layers of sustained lead electric & background acoustic guitars, distant synth surrounds, bass and drums. The music moves slowly toward some far horizon in fine melodic fashion, with a poignant lead guitar solo emerging just at the right moment. Then, an organ line begins, furthering early Floyd feel, only this is a little jauntier than the 70’s rock icons make it. Acoustic guitars come up in the mix and take a lead break as the rhythms and backdrops move effortlessly on, eventually fading and slipping from day into night as another long cosmic outro begins and takes us right up to the fifteen-minute end point. Overall, this is a much more atmospheric and spacier album than the others and an interesting direction for the band to take.

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It’s an almost completely instrumental album and the first 'proper' release in a long time for arguably what is becoming one of the UK's leading psychedelic bands. Unlike the Ozrics, Tribe Of Cro and similar bands, this lot present things from a slightly different and more rewarding angle. Instead of fusing 70’s acid rock with dub and Eastern influences 'a la Ozrics', or trying the more unusual angular approach of Cro, or even tackling old style Gong head-on into Melting Euphoria elements, this band take a more direct route to Hawkwind, Pink Floyd & ‘Fish Rising’-era Steve Hillage. It is one sizzling album with everything a psych fan could want - swathes of ‘Wish You Were Here’ style synths, soaring solos that recall Gilmour, Hillage & Brock, surging space-rock, Blake-style synth swoops & solid rhythmic undercurrents, even managing to do their own answer to the coda to Floyd's 'Saucerful Of Secrets' and making it work to perfection. Every track is a certifiable gem, and the sixty-three minutes pass by so quickly that all you want to do at the end is play it all over again!

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A lot of people reckon that the first live Ozrics CD cannot be bettered in terms of delivering the quintessential sound that is the band in full-on effect. Well, think again, because this is a two-hour concert from the touring band of 2001 that will blow your socks off! Even better is the way the concert starts, slowly and gradually building up steam and sounding very organic, then, the further in you get, the music slowly draws you into its simmering spell. Almost without noticing, you are completely caught up in the steaming cauldron of electric guitars, synths, bass and drums that is dominating the landscape, whirling dervish-style into to the searing strains of some of the best psychedelic acid-rock on the planet – and you’re only half way through disc 1! This CD ends with a most monumental version of the ‘Pyramidion’ single that can’t fail to have your feet moving to the rhythmic spell it casts. The 2^nd disc is simply sensational, as storm-force versions of ‘Sploosh’ and ‘The Throbbe’ serve to testify. The sound quality is absolutely perfect, the band are on absolutely peak form, and as a testament that the Ozrics, far from having peaked as a working unit as some may have thought, are actually still in the ascendancy, this and the previous studio albums illustrate the point perfectly. 16 tracks of essential listening!

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This remastered re-issue of the classic 3rd Fairies album has 4 bonus tracks, including the much sought after single versions of ‘Hold On’ and ‘Well, Well, Well’ and previously unreleased mixes of ‘City Kids’ and ‘Well, Well, Well’. For this album, guitarist of old Paul Rudolph was replaced by soon-to-be Motorhead guitarist Larry Wallis, and here they began the approach to a more rock based and slightly less psychedelic style, although with the trademark Fairies riffing and song-writing prowess still firmly intact. Starting with the anthemic classic: ‘City Kids’, the set moves through a host of slower and more urgent slices of psych-rock, and the guitar work is right out front, with riffs and solos assailing the listener to perfection as the band play a dynamic blinder. With the 4 bonus tracks included, the sound given a complete overhaul and the enhanced packaging with new sleeve notes by Mark Powell, it’s even more of an essential purchase than it was.

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Call yourself a Fairies fan? Well, if you don’t have this then I’d think about that again, because, in line with he first three albums, this is a classic set of vintage tracks that you simply can’t live without. First the good news... Thirty-five minutes of this CD features the BBC ‘Top Gear’ and ‘In Concert’ sessions, including a twenty-minute version of 'Uncle Harry' that has to rate as one of the best ever versions of this psychedelic jamming classic. Not only that but this version is by a line-up of the band that existed only on this recording, notably the stable trio of Rudolph-Hunter-Sanderson joined by a second lead guitarist whose name escapes me, and to hear a dual guitar attack rendition of this psych-rock classic track, is a total treat that takes you such a high, that takes ages to come down from. Being BBC recordings, the quality is superb, and the performances too are totally awesome – In fact the whole thing is just amazing!  Next, the even better news... the other twenty-five minutes of this CD features the 2 tracks from the ‘Glastonbury Fayre’ album. At this price too, you just have to own this album.

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A remastered version of the classic first album by the Fairies from 1971! It is regarded by many as one of the quintessential psychedelic rock albums of all time! This was the only studio album from the original quartet that included Twink, and in its newly remastered form, it still sounds every bit the classic that it has been labelled all these years ago. Predating practically every form of modern psychedelic and stoner rock by miles, this CD actually ‘sounds’ incredibly ‘now’ when you listen to the remastered version - If you didn’t know the album, and someone told you it was recorded relatively recently, you probably wouldn’t argue with them! However, ‘song’ wise; right from the opening strains of the classic ‘Do It’ with its trademark foggy riffing from guitarist Paul Rudolph, right through the trippy 'Heavenly Man’ and 'War Girl’, to the soon-to-be concert favourite ‘Uncle Harry’s Last Freak Out’, every track is so of its time that you can almost smell the joss sticks burning! This re-issue has 5 bonus tracks including single versions of ‘The Snake’ and ‘Do It’ and a previously unreleased version of the truly smoking, twelve-minute, alternate studio version of ‘Uncle Harry’ that totally blows the album version out the water, and THAT was hot to start with! The presence of the all-time Fairies classic single: ‘The Snake’ as the 4^th bonus track, is also a long awaited and welcome addition to this ‘real’ album. Original copies of the pink-coloured vinyl LP now change hands for a staggering £350!

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The classic 2nd album from the Fairies has also been digitally remastered, and 5 bonus tracks have been added, including the previously unreleased songs ‘Going Down’ and ‘Paul Nr. 37’ plus alternative versions of 3 of the album’s tracks. Released by Polydor In July 1972, ‘What A Bunch Of Sweeties’ is by far the bands’ best album, mixing favourites from their live sets with the hilarious stoned-humour of cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, author of ‘The Fabulous Funny Freak Brothers’ comics and ‘Pigs Of Uranus', the closing track on side one of the original vinyl LP. This long-awaited re-issue sums up everything that made the Fairies so special. The combination of psychedelic and stoned rock all neatly tied together in one sizzling, yet commercial package, with songs, short and long, will have you coming back for more time and time again. From the opening minute of typically Fairies humour that introduces the red hot riff opening the seminal ‘Right On, Fight n’, you are hooked to the guitar attack that prefaced stoner rock by decades. This album stands up as one of the top five psychedelic rock albums of all time, and the remastering process has kept all the psych qualities firmly intact while at the same time creating a more expansive sound for your listening pleasure. The 5 bonus tracks plus enhanced packaging and sleeve notes merely add to what was already an incendiary album.

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The second volume of the story that previously started out as the ‘In Space We Trust’ album, and now continues as a further audio document of the various band line-ups since that CD was released, but it’s still not yet the official brand new studio album! So, what is it, then? It’s all previously unreleased music from a line-up of synths, guitar, bass, drums and vocals, with similar and better sound quality than the previous release. Turn it up loud and you’ll hear bass-led thunderous space-rock and some superb space-evoking electronics as the Spacehead sound becomes more defined, much of it dominated by the awesome electric bass work of Mr Dibs, who also handles the vocals and takes much of the writing credits. A couple of the tracks are quite long with space for some strong and sturdy electric bass and electric guitar work, complete with strong drumming and swooping synth backdrops, while several others are short and snappy affairs that roar through your head. A few are segued to create an uninterrupted flow within the cohesive, often explosive music, and the instrumentals feature the synthesizers more prominently, but they are always in a band context. This album flows beautifully, and with the main accent being on power and dynamics, some tracks will really blow you away. The fact that sometimes the bass is used as a lead instrument, almost relegating the guitar to a more rhythmic oriented role, will initially sound a mite strange, but stick with it, because this is becoming a quite potent brew of space-rock, in which Spacehead have their own imprint firmly and squarely implanted. So overall, in its own way, this album is a more than worthy, consistently varied, powerful and atmospheric follow-up to the well received, and now deleted, ‘In Space We Trust’ album. It is seriously fine space-rock, so it’s time to add it to your psych-rock collection and get into Spacehead now!

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A successful super-group project masterminded by musician Don Falcone, who created the work by playing musical phrases and ideas onto a DAT tape, gave that tape to another musician, who added their part, and then he passed that on to someone else to add their bit, and so on, until he eventually they created an album with a list of participants that could hardly be more impressive! This stellar line-up of 17 superb tracks offers seventy-seven minutes of cohesive, flowing music, delivered to absolute perfection. Stylistically, it covers a wide amount of mostly instrumental ground, from space-rock, with nods toward prog, Krautrock, wild prog-fusion and chilled-out acid rock - virtually everything to make up a truly classy album that will have a massively wide appeal. Almost all the tracks possess a huge, solid sound, and a production that places them firmly in the more jamming side of space-rock. The whole thing is full to the brim with original ideas, inspired playing and superb execution, with editing, production and sound second to none. This is a consistent, enjoyable, brilliantly assembled and produced album that really does sound like each musician was present in the studio when the tracks were conceived.

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Weight: 150.00 g

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If the first one was a runaway success supergroup project, this one is, if anything, even better! To fill you in on how this, and the other Spirits Burning album came about - The idea was that Don Falcone, the mastermind musician behind the project, played musical phrases and ideas onto a DAT tape, then gave that tape to another musician, who in turn added his part, and then he passed that on to someone else and so on – and lo! – The tracks were created. The fished product here is a seamless, classy and 200% quality album – A masterpiece of creation that will give hours of satisfying listening for years to come. It eclipses the first one (and THAT was a gem) and can quite easily be said to be genuinely an essential purchase for a wide variety of music fans across an equally large stylistic range. Just like the ‘New Worlds By Design’ album, this is consistent, enjoyable, brilliantly assembled, produced and thought out, and it honestly sounds as if each individual musician was present in the studio when each track was conceived. It just doesn’t come any better than this!

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OK – wait a minute – Listen – you cannot afford to pass this one up... there are so many reasons you need this CD... After the phenomenal success of the first album, and a long wait, we now have a new offering that clearly illustrates this is going to be the year Starfield achieve recognition in a big way - and we’re right in there at the start of it. What you have here is a one-track CD single that is packaged in a way you simply won’t have seen before, and quite frankly, you will be amazed when you cast you eyes on this little fella!  So that’s the first big plus point, but the second is even better… buying this single gets you a voucher that entitles you to £1 off the brand new album when it comes out, meaning you are effectively getting this for just £1.99. Then we get to the band, specifically the fact that, for Hawkwind fans, we’re talking Captain Black & Richard Chadwick, but also the equally vital inclusion of Danny Falkner & Dillar. Then finally, and here’s the clincher, the music... The best track Porcupine Tree never recorded! This is phenomenal – there’s no other word to describe it – you’ll hear a perfect, near six minutes of vocals, guitars, Mellotron, drums and synths that simply ooze classic Porcupine Tree/Pink Floyd from every pore, but with an added bite to the guitars plus some fantastic lead and harmony vocals – it’s the sort of track you will want to play again and again and again, in the house, in the car, in the office – anywhere and everywhere – yes, it really is THAT good. It’s a limited edition, so stake your claim by ordering your copy now.

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The duo of Captain Black (a musician who has performed on stage with Hawkwind) and current Bedouin vocalist Danny Faulkner team up for this 11 track space-rock project. Right from the opening salvo of synths, guitars, electric bass and drums that take up the main riff from ‘Brainstorm’, you feel that you might just be on to a winner - but, as the track drives on in a mesmerising hail of samples and spiralling synth space whooshes, you’re certain of the fact! - This is top class semi-instrumental space-rock of the highest calibre! Faulkner’s voice is also tailor-made for the space-rock genre - all lightly echoed and soaring in the grand traditions of early and classic Hawkwind. Throughout all of this steaming cauldron of epic space-rock, the sound quality and production are top notch, but the arrangements, playing, layers, riffs, rhythms and solos are pure class and obviously heavily Hawkwind-influenced, but with the band’s own sense of originality firmly in place. This is a class act, with an album that has been as well received by our psych customers as any we can think of in recent times - A mind-blowing gem if ever there was one!

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