
Some projects take ages to come to fruition, but the endeavor of having SMALL FACES‘ “The Autumn Stone” issued as a remastered and expanded edition might be the strangest of them all. Strangest – because remastering doesn’t take nine years to do and because expanding what originally was a compilation shouldn’t take a lot of conceptual thinking. Yet that’s happened: the news of such a release – planned as a two-CD mediabook then – first appeared as a blurb on “The Autumn Stone / Me You And Us Too” single which saw the light of day on Record Store Day back in 2016, and there was even a test pressing of the album before it got indefinitely delayed – until now.