Days Of Future Passed

Very nice clean original pressing of this iconic album with a great gloss cover.

Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in November 1967 by Deram Records.^[4] After two years performing as a struggling white R&B band, The Moody Blues were asked by their record label in September 1967 to record an adaptation of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 as a stereo demonstration record.^[4] Instead, the band chose to record an orchestral song cycle about a typical working day.^[4]

Recording sessions for the album took place at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London during 9 May – 3 November 1967.^[8] The band worked with record producer Tony Clarke, engineer Derek Varnals, and conductor Peter Knight.^[2] The album's music features psychedelic rockers,^[2] ballads by singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Hayward, Mellotron played by keyboardist Mike Pinder,^[4] and orchestral accompaniment by the London Festival Orchestra.^[2]

Music writers cite the album as a precursor to progressive rock music.^[1][6][9] Bill Holdship of Yahoo! Music remarks that the band "created an entire genre here."^[7] David Fricke cites it as one of the essential albums of 1967 and finds it "closer to high-art pomp than psychedelia. But there is a sharp pop discretion to the writing and a trippy romanticism in the mirroring effect of the strings and Mike Pinder's Mellotron."^[4] Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre.^[5] An influential work of the counterculture period,^[10] Allmusic editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era."^[2]