Infernal Blues Machine - Question for forum please

[Johndelve]

Does anyone on here have a London UK copy of this unheralded LP from 1976? My copy looks to be more or less unplayed but it has a great deal of surface noise and I'm wondering if other copies are the same? i..e have I just been unlucky or is it a poor pressing plant job and all copies suffer from this same problem ? There are three very nice slow and soulful tracks on it, by the way, although much of the rest isn't great.