Remastered reissue of the exceptional second collection from Bill Fay which was originally released in 1971 on Deram. While still being infectiously melodic, Time of the Last Persecution is far darker and self indulgent. Think a cross between Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate and Skip Spence's Oar. Doom-laden, apocalyptic imagry abounds. On the cover Fay looks like a long lost member of the manson family. Yet, as paranoid and bizarre as it all is, Fay's penchant for melody shines through. The sparse instrumentation was provided by a band that featured Ray Russell on guitar, Alan Rushton on drums and Darryl Runswick on bass. If anything the record was a bigger creative triumph than Bill Fay.
