CLEARANCE - Kinks, The - Percy [Ltd Ed Picture Disc/ 50th Anniversary Edition] (RSD 2021)

Percy is a 1971 film soundtrack for the British comedy film of the same name performed by the English rock group the Kinks with additional orchestral arrangements conducted by Stanley Myers. It was released as the band's ninth official studio album. Ray Davies wrote some hauntingly beautiful ballads and some solid blues and country numbers as well for the forward thinking cult film. Although virtually unseen in the United States, it was still popular enough to yield a sequel (Percy's Progress), but its real impact came from its soundtrack. "God's Children" and "Animals in the Zoo" have turned up on some career anthologies, but there's a lot more to Percy than those two tracks. "Completely" is as fine a slow blues as the band ever recorded, with a sizzling performance by Dave Davies, and "Dreams" is a solid rocker, even up alongside "Animals in the Zoo."