Spring: Spring [ENDLESS HAPPINESS]

Why you'll love it

The one and only Spring album is back on vinyl, and it's a feast of mellotron: three of the five members are credited on it. It also features a young Pick Withers on drums, years before he joined Dire Straits.

This edition

• Back on vinyl
• Eight tracks, as on the 1971 LP

About the album

Spring were a Leicester band who might have stayed local legends if their van hadn't broken down in the Welsh countryside after a gig in Cardiff, right by the spot where Kingsley Ward had just set up Rockfield Studios. That accident led to this record, which came out in May 1971 on Neon with Pat Moran singing, Ray Martinez on guitars, Kips Brown on keyboards, Adrian Moloney on bass and Pick Withers on drums.

The sound is the thing: great washes of mellotron (three members played it) under folk-tinged songs like "The Prisoner (Eight By Ten)", "Shipwrecked Soldier" and "Golden Fleece", gentle and melancholy rather than flashy. A second album was recorded and shelved, so this is all there was at the time. One album, three mellotrons, no regrets.

Tracklist

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Out August 21, 2026 on Endless Happiness (cat# HE71022), a reissue of the 1971 album.