The Sorrows

★★★

Pink, Purple, Yellow & Red: The Complete Sorrows GRAPEFRUIT. CD/DL

Singles, albums, foreign language recordings, live tracks, outtakes and rarities.

The Coventry outfit’s entire recordings, together for the first time. The essential parts: the Don Fardon led ‘classic’ line-up’s 1965 UK LP

Take A Heart, a tough freakbeat paragon including the brooding title track. Also, the four previously unissued Joe Meekproduced cuts from 1964, no messing R&B covers including harmonica-drenched takes on Hoochie Coochie Man and Don’t Start Me Talkin’. Then the marginalia, mostly sans Fardon, when the group moved to Italy and it gets confusing, with various incarnations experimenting in heavy psych. The best bits: Ypotron, their 1966 theme to the Italian spy film of the same name; 1968’s ninetrack demo album; ’69’s Italyonly Old Songs, New Songs. The inclusion of a 1980 reunion gig seems wholly unnecessary.