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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Head Shop - Head Shop (1969 us, stunning rough fuzz garage psych, 2004 bonus tracks remaster)

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The Head Shop were a short-lived band that only managed this one LP in 1969 on Epic and broke up shortly thereafter for lack of promotion an...
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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Pan - Pan (1970 denmark, remarkable heavy bluesy psych rock, 2011 Flawed Gems bonus tracks remaster)

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Pan was a Danish rock band, formed in October 1969 in Copenhagen by Robert Lelièvre and Arne Würgler . The band released just one album, whi...
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Friday, July 28, 2023

rep> Writing On The Wall - The Power Of The Picts (1969-73 uk, solid heavy psych with prog traces, 2007 double disc edition)

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Writing on the Wall, from Edinburgh, Scotland is the epitome of an underground rock band. Their one and only album was entitled The Po...
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Monday, July 24, 2023

Laser Pace - Granfalloon (1974 us, exciting experimental prog cosmic funk rock, 2008 digipak remaster)

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The only prog LP Takoma Records ever released -- the 1974 slab by L.A.'s Laser Pace. The album's title, Granfalloon, is a term creat...
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Saturday, July 22, 2023

Rustix - Bedlam (1969 us, nice soulful funky psych rock, Vinyl edition)

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Outside of their native Rochester, New York it's unlikely many folks will remember The Rustix.  That's unfortunate since they were a...
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Friday, July 21, 2023

Yezda Urfa - Boris (1975 us, spectacular prog rock, 2019 japan SHM bonus track remaster)

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Yezda Urfa, with a name like that, you know these guys have to be unique.  The name has a rather simple origin, however: flipping through a ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Mike Harrison - Smokestack Lightning (1972 uk, fine bluesy classic rock, 2011 remaster)

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This 1972 release by the former and future Spooky Tooth singer is split between four tight, melodic white boy blues tunes and two extended j...
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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Jericho - Jericho (1972 israel / uk, powerful hard rocking killer psych, 2010 bonus tracks remaster)

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This eponymous album from 1972 was the end of the road for the U.K.-based band Jericho, but what a long and eventful road it was. Years earl...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Utopia - Utopia (1972 germany, amazing art prog krautrock, 2017 remaster)

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Recorded at the same time (July 1972) at the same studio (Bavaria Studios, Munich) as Amon Düül II`s well known and of their best efforts ...

Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer (1977 us, magnificent roots, reggae, folk, Velvetish rock)

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Ghost Writer wasn't Garland Jeffreys' first album, but it was the first one where his signature lyrical voice made itself properly h...