Love: Four Sail (light blue vinyl) [ELEKTRA]

Why you'll love it

A light blue vinyl pressing of Love's fourth album, Arthur Lee's first after the Forever Changes line-up came apart. With guitarist Jay Donnellan on board, it's a harder, louder Love, opening with "August".

This edition

• Light blue vinyl
• Ten tracks across two sides, from "August" to "Always See Your Face"

About the album

By mid-1968 Arthur Lee was the only member of the Forever Changes band still standing, so he built a new one: Jay Donnellan on guitar, Frank Fayad on bass and George Suranovich on drums. They rehearsed at Lee's house, and he rented gear with his own money and recorded them in Hollywood's manufacturing district. The quartet cut 27 songs, Elektra's Jac Holzman picked ten for Four Sail, and the rest became the double album Out Here.

It's tougher than what came before, with Donnellan's guitar slashing through "August" and "Good Times", but Lee's melodies are as strange and lovely as ever on "Your Friend And Mine (Neil's Song)" and "Always See Your Face". Four Sail tends to live in the shadow of Forever Changes, which is a bit like being the tallest building next to a mountain.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 16, 2026 on Elektra (cat# RCV174049), a reissue of the 1969 album.