Van Der Graaf Generator could probably best be described as “difficult listening” music. The antithesis of “easy listening” music. Peter Hamill does not do background there is very little light here. Most people at first hearing do not understand VDG music, come to think of it even at the hundredth hearing most people don’t understand it. These are archive recordings from the halcyon lost period of VDG recorded between 1972 and 1975: Post “Pawn Hearts and pre “Godbluff”. Peter Hammill personally compiled the album from rare and archive tapes. Some overdubs were added but the whole album was recorded in nine hours to retain the spirit of the original venture. Some are studio live recordings and others are studio rarities. They are often works in progress that never made it vinyl in this form but have the basis for later tracks. It has at times a random freeform nature with some band versions of solo songs. The tracks have been re-mastered and now posses a clarity and depth that they previously lacked.

1. The Liquidator
2. Rift Valley
3. Tarzan
4. Coil Night
5. Time Vaults
6. Drift
7. Ronceveaux
8. It All Went Red
9. Faint and Forsaken
10. Black Room