Present From Nancy is a top 50 album for yours truly. At this point they were a bunch of teenagers who studied Soft Machine Volume 2 and somehow managed to improve on it. Perhaps it's the single minded focus that youth can possess, while employing a yet-to-be-disillusioned imagination. Whatever the case, Supersister distilled the best parts out of Soft Machine and Caravan, and left an artifact for the ages. Stips' keyboard playing is top notch, employing the fuzz organ as much as possible, while the remainder of the band puts the tight and complicated rhythms together behind him. Add some beautiful and melodic flute, and the soft affected vocal style that the Dutch seem to have mastered as much as the English, and you have an album that is irresistible.
Ownership: LP: 1970 Polydor. Gatefold. True first pressing. Acquired from a friend (1992).
CD: 1990 Polydor. Jewel case with To the Highest Bidder.
My first copy was the low budget 2-for-1 CD (1990).
1990; 1992; 3/9/10 (new entry); 3/17/17
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