 The record anticipated the do-it-yourself movement that later overtook rock music.The highly influential British BBC Radio 1 disk-jockey John Peel regularly played the album, at the time available in the Uk only as an import; it subsequently came second in a reader's poll held by Britain's leading music paper "Melody Maker".Phillips was then contacted by the head of Virgin Records, Richard Branson (later to start up further companies under the Virgin brand) who signed Phillips and released "Lost at Sea" on Virgin's subsidiary Caroline Records label.