Fat Mattress II is the second studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by English folk rock

Folk rock

Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...

 band Fat Mattress

Fat Mattress

Fat Mattress were an English folk rock band that formed in Folkestone in 1968. Founded by guitarist and vocalist Noel Redding, during his time as bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and vocalist Neil Landon, the band was completed by multi-instrumentalist Jim Leverton and drummer Eric Dillon...

, released in 1970.

Reception

Compared with the band's debut self-titled album

Fat Mattress (album)

-Personnel:Fat Mattress*Neil Landon – vocals, production*Noel Redding – guitar, vocals, production*Jimmy Leverton – bass, harpsichord, organ, vocals, production*Eric Dillon – drums, tuned percussion, productionGuest musicians...

, Fat Mattress II was a commercial failure, not appearing in any major record charts. The album was described, in a review for music website allmusic, by critic Richie Unterberger as "similar to, but also inferior to, their debut." In said review, Unterberger went on to suggest that "The songs aren't even up to the debut's modest standard, however, and the lingering feeling is that of a tolerable but fairly anonymous '60s-turning-into-'70s band with a Transatlantic feel."

Track listing

The bonus tracks were intended for a third album and were recorded after Noel Redding left the band.

Personnel

Fat Mattress

• Neil Landon
  Neil Landon
  Neil Landon is an English singer, who has been credited with singing on a number of hits in the UK Singles Chart...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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  , production
  Record producer
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• Noel Redding
  Noel Redding
  Noel Redding was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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   (2,4,5,6,10,11), production
• Jimmy Leverton – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , production
• Eric Dillon – drums
  Drum kit
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  , production
• Steve Hammond – guitar (eventually replaced Noel Redding)
• Mick Weaver
  Mick Weaver
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   – keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
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Additional personnel

• George Chkiantz
  George Chkiantz
  George Chkiantz is a recording engineer based in London who has been responsible for the engineering on a number of well-known albums, many of which are considered classics, owing in part to the high quality of the recordings....
  
   – engineering
  Audio engineering
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• Roger Wilkinson – engineering on "The Storm" and "Highway"
• Gered Mankowitz
  Gered Mankowitz
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   – photography
  Photography
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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Ref.
United Kingdom	1970	Polydor Polydor Records Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...	LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	2383 025
Germany
United States	1970	Atco Atco Records ATCO Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, currently operating through WMG's Rhino Entertainment.-Beginnings:Atco Records was founded in 1955 as a division of Atlantic Records. It was devised as an outlet for productions by one of Atlantic's founders, Herb Abramson, who...	LP	SD 33-347
United Kingdom	1992	Sequel	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	NEXCD197
United Kingdom	29 June 2009	Esoteric Esoteric Recordings Established in 2007, Esoteric Recordings is a UK independent record label specialising in 70s progressive rock, folk, psychedelic and jazz-rock reissues as part of the Cherry Red Records umbrella of imprints...	CD	2135