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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Chambers Brothers - New Generation (1971 us, spectacular funky blues rock with psych aspects)

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Eschewing their normal frenzied mix of soul and rock, the brothers package their socially uplifting messages more in James Brown-style funk ...
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Monday, September 12, 2022

Revival - Revival (1972 us, ravishing hippie country folk rock)

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Revival is a country-rock band founded by the East Coast folk duo of Dan Daley and Michelle Conway. They built around strong two, three and ...
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Friday, September 9, 2022

Thunder Mugs - On The Spot (1969 us, cult garage psych, with fuzz guitar farfisa and melodic vocals, 2000 digipak release)

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The Thunder Mugs were an obscure late-'60s band from California that recorded an album's worth of songs for Bill Holmes' All Ame...
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Bram Stoker - Heavy Rock Spectacular (1972 uk, sensational heavy prog rock, 2014 double disc japan SHM remaster)

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Bram Stoker was formed in the summer of 1969 by Hammond organist Tony Bronsdon, guitarist Pete Ballam, drummer Rob Haines and bass guitarist...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Kristyl - Kristyl (1975 us, impressive guitar rock with West Coast psychedelia and unison singing, sometimes moving towards prog, 2008 edition)

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Kristyl, where a Louisville band and released their classic self-titled LP in 1974. The album is a blend of homemade psychedelia with a nice...
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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Hello People - Have You Seen The Light (1971 us, brilliant baroque psych, 2016 korean remaster)

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W. S. "Sonny" Tongue "Country" had done some time in prison in the mid-1960s for draft resistance. After the first recor...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Shampoo - Volume One (1972 belgium, fine brassy jazz-rock with plenty of sophisticated ensemble work, energetic solos and psychedelic dreamy vocals, 2012 remaster)

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Drummer Cel De Bauwer and singer/keyboardist Luc Smets had achieved some international recognition as members of the band Pebbles.  When Peb...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Electric Sandwich - Electric Sandwich (1972 germany, nice trippy psych prog rock, 2004 digipak remaster)

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In 1969, the members of a rather loose session line-up joined together to found Electric Sandwich, a jazz rock band from Bonn/Germany. Inste...
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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Chris Coombs And The Lightyears Away / Thundermother - Gagalactyca (1971 uk, exceptional spacey acid psych folk rock, 2000 reissue)

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"GAGALACTYCA" is a sister album to Astral Navigations. Lightyears Away has pretty much the same line-up, though with less from Bri...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Thundermother / Lightyears Away - Astral Navigations (1970-71 uk, remarkable acid folk psych blues rock)

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“Lightyears away: melting off the sea by the Coastroad / in the dead land. You can hear, almost hear that place, softly, naked, unknown / vo...