Description I am not a record dealer, just someone who has accumulated a large collection of vinyl in the 1970s and to a certain extent in the 1980s, and now has (sadly) to let my old 'friends' go to new homes (age and inevitable decay- me, not the records). After leaving Soft Machine (or asked to leave, he said), Robert Wyatt formed Matching Mole (cf. the French for ‘soft machine’ is ‘machine moule’- clever, hu?). Musically it was the direction he was wanting to go in,and, to be fair, it was not that of the Softs. It is manifestly a ‘Canterbury’sound but difficult to pigeon-hole precisely. This second of the studio albums is evidently more politicised, reflecting Robert’s Marxist world-view (not sure of the other group members), with his self-question on one track about the value of musical creation in the Class Struggle. That apart, it is a much more ‘fun’album than the first LP, with intriguing musical meanderings cut through with quite witty overdubs. I am not an expert on the grading of records, but I do know that 'Mint' and 'near-Mint' are, for all practical purposes, meaningless. Who buys a record and then never plays it? I bought this in 1976, and it is a re-press from that year. The label is typical of mid-70s CBS, as it is the ‘sunrise’ orange label, with the ‘Pac-man’ ‘C’ in ‘CBS’. The cover is in EX condition, with hardly any signs of wear. The vinyl has no marks or blemishes on visual inspection, and on playback has very little in the way of ticks and tocks, so I would rate it as VG+ to EX. Please remember that I played these records because I loved the music; I did not buy them as future Collectors’ items or exercises in Hi-Finavel-gazing. I always took good care of them, however, kept them in vinyl sleeves, and in cases, but even then, some wear is an inevitability. The matrix numbers on the run-out are S 65260 A1 S 65260 B1 The price selected is reflective of pricing on ‘Discogs’.