It feels quite extraordinary that a record by Carole King, let alone one this great could have fallen by the wayside. But in 1968 the world wasn’t quite ready for her pivot from pop songwriting prodigy for hire to the Tapestry singer-songwriter who would come to embody the introspective 70s. King had just moved to Laurel Canyon and was beginning to settle into a hippie earth mother role, and The City was her band with her future husband Charles Larkey and friend Danny Kortchmar. And their one album is a perfect fusion of everything swimming around at the time: folk, pop, country, psychedelia, grandiose hippie drama - and stands up today as up there with the best works of Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, Crosby Stills & Nash and co. Thanks be to Light in the Attic for unearthing it again in 2015.