David Axelrod is one of those composer-auteurs revered amongst crate diggers and spiritual listeners, whose ideas were bigger than any one band could handle. That's why he flew on from The Electric Prunes and struck out on his own in 1968 with this opus of big band-prog-psych-funk. If that sounds like a heavyweight combination, it's because it is, as Axelrod pushed his arrangements into the stratosphere. Just listen to a perennial classic like 'Holy Thursday' and you'll feel yourself soaring without even trying. Now Elemental have repressed this landmark record onto heavyweight vinyl, which is precisely what such massive music deserves.