“Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup

Pentangle – The Albums 1868-72.

Pentangle released six albums between 1968 and 1972, but the wealth of bonus material here expands this fine collection to a mammoth 14 discs of vinyl. Out-takes, live tracks and material cherry-picked from contemporaneous solo albums by the group’s esteemed guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn all feature.

And with 20,000 words of sleeve notes and six different music journalists each writing an essay specific to one of the half-dozen Pentangle albums revisited, it’s hard to imagine a more thorough or inviting introduction to the band’s key releases.