The Kinks will release a 50th anniversary edition of The Village Green Preservation Society later this year.
Packed with timeless, classic British pop songs of an idyllic, rose-tinted world falling out of reach, The Village Green Preservation Society remains the most perfectly quintessential Kinks album. “I think The Village Green Preservation Society is about the ending of a time personally for me in my life,” says Ray Davies.
“In my imaginary village. It’s the end of our innocence, our youth. Some people are quite old but in the Village Green, you’re never allowed to grow up. I feel the project itself as part of a life cycle.”
Out on October 26th, it will be available on a variety of formats with a previously unreleased track entitled Time Song. In addition, Proud Central Gallery in London is to host a photography exhibition between October 4th-November 18th.
Could it be this release that temps the famously warring band into reunion? Ray Davies has recently suggested inter-band rivalries have been put to one side and he’s, ‘made that work in the studio and it’s fired me up to make them play harder, and with fire‘.