It’s the time of the season…
Our Record of the Month selection for November is the classic 1968 album, Odessey and Oracle, by the Zombies.
Club Members will be getting a copy of the recent mono remaster of the LP pressed on “orchid” colored vinyl and only available at independent record stores.
The Zombies were clearly fans of William Faulkner. The song “A Rose for Emily” (track 2 on Odessey and Oracle) is based on Faulkner’s short story of the same name. Most of y’all know that Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, is in Oxford, Mississippi where our shop is located. So, we made our very own “Zombies Dig Faulkner!” postcard we’ll be shipping with the record. The postcard is made of wildflower seeds, so you can plant some flowers for Emily, just like in the song, “A Rose for Emily.”
Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies’ second album, has been named as one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and has been dubbed “a psych-pop masterpiece…decades ahead of its time” by Pitchfork. The newly remastered in mono album now has new liner notes by the brilliant David Fricke.
Odessey and Oracle‘s uncommon brilliance wasn’t just a standout in the Zombies’ catalog but it also made for a spellbinding musical moment that occupies a similar space as only a few other special albums. It’s not an overstatement to assert that Odessey and Oracle was in conversation with Pet Sounds, Revolver, and Forever Changes as part of a limited echelon of daring and unpredictable rock music that quietly, but certainly, changed the course of everything that followed.
We love this record. We say this a lot, but this record should truly be in any and all record collections. We’re glad to be shipping this one out to you. This could be your year…
