Please could mix up the tempos, settling into a folky strum on "Watching" or powering through the speedy tempo of the genuinely exciting "Breakthrough", but the mood always remained murky, dreamy, and druggy. Perhaps the recording quality of the various demos Please left behind is as responsible for that mood as the songs and performances themselves. Pulled from tapes and acetates, Please's recordings are decidedly lo-fi, though many still manage to be quite dynamic with a rather big bottom.
Originally released by Acme in 1998, this selection of sides titled 1968/1969 is now making it back to vinyl via Guerssen Records. Presumably not much is known about Please, since Guerssen's release is atypically light on historical liner notes, but there a few notes on the back of the cover and there's a lyric insert inside it. More importantly, the vinyl is flat, well-centered, and very quiet. Any noise is down to primitive sources, but even that is pretty minimal. I received the black vinyl version for review, but there's also a white vinyl one in a limited edition of 110 units.
