“Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 Volume Two,” various artists

At Grapefruit, the juicy recipe is more than ever a delight. Some 80 titles are added here to the first volume of the extraordinary “British” cocktail of 1967. There are no Beatles, but everything you could wish for around it: the group Traffic and its Paper Sunthe quasi-classic Homburg from Procol Harum, the masterpiece Beechwood Park Zombies, at the top of a whole list. We note the more than promising beginnings of an Elton John (with his sentimental piece Nina), a Genesis demo before Phil Collins, and Bowie already brilliant two years before Space Oddity. The copious booklet of this box set introduces members of groups that were going to break free, a Peter Frampton still with The Herd, Sandy Denny already enchanting with the Strawbs. And we are amazed by all these groups that remained in the shadows, or even fell into the culvert of cancelled releases: what injustices finally repaired for the Bystanders, the Universals and other Focal Point. The most flowery of the years of the pop decade fully deserves this incredibly colorful flowering, even if it is 57 years later.

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