Fresh Cream is the debut
studio album by the British
rock band
Cream. It was the first LP release of producer
Robert Stigwood's new "Independent"
Reaction Records label, released in the
United Kingdom as both a mono and stereo version on 9 December 1966, the same time as the
single release of "
I Feel Free". The album was released a month later, in January 1967, in the
United States by
Atco Records in both mono and stereo versions. For many years, only the UK and
U.S. stereo mixes were available in CD. The UK mono album was reissued on CD for the first time in late 2013, as part of a deluxe SHM-CD and SHM-SACD sets (both editions also contain the UK stereo counterpart) sold only in Japan.