Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / October 16, 2026

A 1971 Album Nobody Released for Fifty Years, Explained by the Man Who Made It

Mourning Phase recorded one album at Eden Studios in August 1971 and it sat unreleased until Seelie Court put it out in 2021, half a century later. Owen Knight accounts for the gap himself, from the Lamplight Club in Wallasey to an original acetate that reportedly changed hands on Discogs, and the photographs running with it are his own.

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A 1971 Album Nobody Released for Fifty Years, Explained by the Man Who Made It
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