Small Faces (Immediate) RELEASED: June, 1967
PRODUCED BY: Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane
RECORDED AT: Olympic Studios, London
We used to have tape loops running 'round the back of chairs and back onto the machine to get the desired effect. It was great, 'cos you had to experiment, there was no gadget that did it for you."
- Steve Marriott
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Informed by beat, soul and incipient psychedelia, it’s the tension between Marriott’s cocky instantaneity and Lane’s measured reflection that really lies at the heart of the second Small Faces album.

The magnificent and irresistible Itchycoo Park gave the band their only US Top 20 hit and reasserted the Small Faces’ supremacy as a singles act. Coming on the back of the speedily stoned Here Come The Nice (June 1967), and the track reached No. 3 in Britain at the height of the Summer of Love.

A long-time favourite for Small Faces connoisseurs, the album rather suffered from being released in the same month as The Beatles’ headline-hogging Sgt. Pepper – hence its latter-day status as a hidden gem.

On May 7th 2012, Universal Music Catalogue will release a deluxe edition of Small Faces. Click above to view the confirmed tracklisting.