\"Although a stop-gap release to complete Levitation's contract with Ultimate Records(before moving to Rough Trade), this album is not the lesser for it.
Bringing together the highlights of their two EPs and one 7\" release plus a couple of live favourites, this album perfectly encapsulates the wonder that is Levitation in their early development. Alas the band didn't last long (fizzling out a couple of years later after Terry Bickers had acrimoniously left the band on-stage at the Tufnell Park Dome), but this gives an idea of their intensity on stage and off, with special mention to the epic 'Bedlam', 12 minutes of glorious madness, riddled with a hypnotic chiming Bickers riff that hooks the soul.
Need For Not, the only 'proper' album followed soon after this, but this album represents the raw original Levitation with their howling and incandescent guitars, the adrenalin bursts and the mantra-like downs.
The band did release another album, Meanwhile Gardens, on Dinosaur Records (I think), but without Bickers' lead vocals and chiming guitars - a major disappointment.\"
