Purple vinyl. The Past Tense are the South East's finest purveyors of authentic '60s mod/garage/psych. This is their first full-blown release on the Fruits de Mer and they've persuaded them to go for nothing but '60s covers, upping the psychedelic quotient from the usual full-on mod/garage assault that they favour on stage - although they've recorded everything raw, trying to keep that authentic sound. And true to form, they've gone for it bigtime by recording a 7" EP, together with an almost free CD album of even more '60s covers. The enclosed CD ('ACROSS THE POND... AND BACK AGAIN') contains the four tracks from the 7" plus 10 more.