Pre-Order: To Stone / Lost Innocence - Picture Sleeve (Uk) - Cheques / The Buddhas [7"]

Sixth release on the ROVR x Ace Records Uprising label. The Cheques' 'To Stone' - moody garage perfection with a rolling dance beat - came from a band of young Italian/American Air Force personnel in Louisiana who went from playing the officers' mess to cutting six 45s, before splitting in 1969 as members were posted to Vietnam. The Buddhas' 'Lost Innocence' was the Bakersfield band's only single, a 1967 tiny-label killer built on a thumping, handclap-driven, heavily reverbed garage sound. Original copies of both are scarce and expensive thanks to tiny original pressings - this reissue makes two genuine garage rarities affordable again.