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Psychedelic Polyhedron

album by Mainliner

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ17009925 ↗
Source-derived summary

Psychedelic Polyhedron is the second album by Mainliner, released in April 1997 by Fractal Records.

Editorial summary

“Psychedelic Polyhedron” enters the record as album by Mainliner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Psychedelic, Polyhedron and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Psychedelic, Polyhedron and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Psychedelic Polyhedron” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Psychedelic, Polyhedron and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17009925. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Psychedelic Polyhedron”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Psychedelic Polyhedron primary sources, Psychedelic Polyhedron archive and Psychedelic research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Psychedelic Polyhedron”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Psychedelic Polyhedron” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.