01	A Girl Named You						10:08
	02	No Tree Will Grow						07:39
	03	Energy (Out Of Future)						14:55
	04	Higher						02:56
	05	A Girl Name You (Single Version)						03:17
	06	Missing Link						02:58
	07	No Tree Will Grow (Single Edit)						04:27
	08	The Groupies Of The Band						04:32

Supersister's unique group sound truly flourished on their second LP. Keyboardist Robert Jan Stips had taken control of all the songwriting and managed to work out the obvious influences -- for instance, exit the organ lines too reminiscent ... Full Descriptionof the Canterbury scene. At this point, the group is not borrowing ideas from others, it is developing its own ideas alongside the big progressive rock acts. To the Highest Bidder doesn't sound like this or that; it is pure Supersister, namely in "A Girl Named You," the group's first true classic. Stips' composition combines elements of rock and jazz with a circular me-and-you message that brings to mind early Gong (the way he handles the melody also evokes Daevid Allen). Everybody gets a technical workout, yet the piece unfolds gracefully, striking a balance between the melodicism of Italian progressive rock and the witty character of the Canterbury flavor of the genre. This balance is what will set apart this album and the next one. The ballad "No Tree Will Grow (On Too High a Mountain)" is a brilliant fluke -- witness the collective burst of laughter at the end if you thought the guys were serious about this progressified '60s pop pastiche. By then the group's longest composition, the 15-minute "Energy (Out of Future)" tries to do too many things at once, with very difficult passages tied together by comical vocal episodes. A bit excessive, it still has its share of fine moments that are fun and clever, but what it mostly accomplishes is to exorcise the group's interest in studio experimentation, paving the way for more focused songwriting on the next LP. To the Highest Bidder was reissued on CD as a two-fer together with the group's first album, Present from Nancy. ~ Franзois Couture

2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Dutch Prog Rock quartet's sophomore album, originally released in 1971. Featured on the soundtrack of the film Control (the Ian Curtis/Joy Division bio-pic), interest in the band is at an all time high. Led by keyboardist Robert Jan Stips (later of The Nits), Inspired by the work of Soft Machine and Caravan, the group recorded a quartet of master works. Eccentric, accomplished and unique, Supersister could run circles around almost any other band of the era. Esoteric.

Personnel: Robert Jan Stips (keyboards); Marco Vrolijk (drums); Sacha Van Geest (wind).