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  The Cordelia Records CD re-release from 2010. I has a twenty four page booklet full of fascinating illustrated history, and some bonus tracks.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of The Tender Yellow Ponies of Insomnia via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  Review by Freek Kinkelaar:
  
  And so we reach the final instalment of the outstanding Deep Freeze Mice reissues. Recorded in 1987 in guitarist/vocalist/dictator Alan Jenkins’ flat on a four-track cassette recorder, Yellow Ponies was – like all their albums – selfreleased/ self-distributed andformed the Mice’s swansong.
  
  Not that they realised it at the time, as the band – existing in their own universe and devoid of any ambition – never officially broke up, seemingly evaporating into thin air. Yellow Ponies features some great songs, such as Ariadne Metal Cream Pie and Conversation Gap Panic, replete with strange chord sequences and time changes, experimentation, semi-literary lyrics about goats and a lot of complex guitar solos. Attempted covers of Love You More (Pete Shelley) and Janis (Country Joe McDonald), pale against their own material: a blend of naïve UK psych, pop and, well, something else entirely.
  
  As with previous reissues, this one adds more than 35 minutes of bonus material, while the generous sleevenotes include a transcription of a long, often hilarious, talk between Jenkins and bass player Mick Bunnage about the band’s history. The Mice could have been the biggest thing on earth since sliced Beatles. Thank heavens they weren’t. ... more
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