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REC ME: WEED šŸ„¦ (October 2023: Chapter 10)

Hi. My name is Ben. I know nothing about Psychedelic music. To educate me, pls rec albums. I will listen to 1 album a day in October 2023. I will then describe the album that I have heard in this list. Kind regards, Ben /// RULES IN FIRST LIST ENTRY THANKS ///
1Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Shyga! The Sunlight Mound

RULES: Rec me any psychedelic music you want. I have my preferences (see below) but the world is your very high oyster.

BIG YES = Neo-Psych, Psych Folk, Psych Electronic, Very Stoned Rock/Metal, freaky jazz, fucked ambient, anything hazy + ethereal + lo-fi

Everything else = completely fine, BUT i would urge you to reach for weirder, more obscure shit over the CLASSICS. I do not need a list of Pink Floyd and Sgt Pepper clones thank you.

EXCEPTION: no king gizzard pls

NB: We are skipping the 1st as I'm late but we're GUCCI from the 2nd.
2The Incredible String Band
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

2nd October 2023 [RYUS]

I was so ready to crowd kill this but damn i actually kinda hug it - proper hippie grade psych folk nonsense yEs. Big contrast from a month without melody, feels like the weightlessness of apex of rollercoaster and the weeeEeeEeeEEeeeEEEEEeee that follows. Quaint oaken imagery, ornate goofy vox, endearing woodsy thematics, many cosy moments, particularly A Very Cellular Song = an insane chain of glistening serotonin giblets. All just a bit magical, made me smile, got choked up at one point, i forget when. Weird.

Trip rating: Peace with friends and a campfire.

Album rating: [4]
3Kikagaku Moyo
Mammatus Clouds

3rd October 2023 [BUDDHA]

I feel like ima overrate this but heck this is just what i was looking for!!! Freeform Raga Rock/Folk. Literally hypnotic i was listening to this standing up in a train station this evening closed my eyes opened them again 15 minutes had passed my train had arrived heck. Transportive, long form, immobile, glorious.

Actual thoughts: I like how this starts with the sparse, delicate, 30 min epic of very slow proportions, then opens up into the 17 min melodic lullaby of sitar and grace, and then the dirty 3 min psych rock closer just PLONKs into existence. Feels rough and ready and ill thought out, but is all the more charming for it.

Apparently I've actually heard their 2018 LP which I did not remember lol but much prefer this - less direct and obvious chunky proggy psych rock and more free spirited joy.

Trip rating: i almost missed my train.

Album rating: [4.3]
4Sigh
Imaginary Sonicscape

4th October 2023 [MoM]

Rather daft, innit, but kinda works? Heck. Sabbath meets Ghost meets Deep Purple meets kvlt? Something like that. Comes together surprisingly well in that late career Mr Bungle way - the old school heavy metal solos slot in just fine next to the classically inspired piano and puddles of mushrooms thank you very much. Entirely unpredictable, and yet exactly what Iā€™d expect from the worldā€™s first (as I understand it) Japanese black metal band. Stupid goofy fun.

Trip rating: Stag do that starts in Amsterdam and ends in Tokyo.

Album rating: [4] stupid good start to this list jeez
5Les Rallizes Denudes
'77 Live

5th October 2023 [TIM]

Thereā€™s something in the juxtaposition of the upbeat/goofy/sparkling bass lines and the unfathomably loud FEEDBACK///REVERB wombo combo that is simultaneously hilarious and also kinda stirring. Conjuring images of sweaty basement guitar mashing acoustics painful and glorious. Fuck itā€™s long tho - not sure Iā€™m qualified to apply rating yet, but Iā€™ll give another spin and weā€™ll return.

Update (06.10.23): very much like, but feel like love will require more time.

Update (12.10.23): keep returning to this and realising i just dont have anything else in the other 2000 albums in my back-pocket that quite scratches the effervescent atmospheric itch that this hits. +[0.3]

Trip rating: Droppinā€™ acid, burninā€™ shins.

Album rating: [3.7] ---> [4]
6Bardo Pond
Amanita

6th October 2023 [DAD]

Another cute mishmash: the shoegaze plus the NOISE plus the Sonic Youth circa Modest Mouse nonchalance-stroke-anxiety plus the space-aged-stoned-as-balls tings (*deep breaths*). Completely impenetrable in the sense that songs blur into themselves and one another in steaming psychedelica. Head spinning sauce. Also very LONG. More bongs required.

Update (06.10.23): epic highs, kinda mid lows, all around very pleasurable, my my I do like the sludge this occasionally sinks into.

Trip rating: An iridescent blunt in the shape of the moon.

Album rating: [3.5]
7Solar Fields
Leaving Home

7th October 2023 [JON]

I have brain ouchies. It is because of the open bar. Bloody matrimony getting in the way of my psychedelics.

This is good soothing handholding calm YES great timing. Patient, warm production guides patient, warm compositions, despite the spacey metallic qualities to the corridors. Clever sequencing, holistic and wholemeal, grainy, thicc, does not feel like 80 minutes but is (why these recs all long help). Right place right time raking in bonus points as a result.

Trip rating: hangover cure.

Album rating: [4]
8The Irresistible Force
Flying High

8th October 2023 [HYP]

Less opportune timing this makes my spinning head spin faster hold on to your chunks boys or we be blowinā€™. The most properly psychedelic anything on this list has felt, reality yanking beep boops, the colours become blotchy, purple orange green yellow. Mostly relaxing. Also over an hour long grrrr I have plans important plans goddamn.

Trip rating: where did I leave my stamps

Album rating: [3.5]
9T2
It'll All Work Out in Boomland

9th October 2023 [MEATsalad]

Old school blue balls banger - we're talking heady proggy hard psych with heart and soul and suprising amounts of girth for 1970. Touch of Floyd / Hendrix, bit of Sabbath, some Captain Beyond flavour stuff. Lovingly and attentively put together - the flair never overtakes the humanity, despite how impressive and techy the musicianship is (drumming is bananas, bass beefy, guitars godly, keys cute, and vox understated but kinda perfect within that mix).

Trip rating: tfw your hair is too long and gets caught in the revolving door and you fall down

Album rating: [4]
10Candy Claws
Ceres And Calypso In The Deep Time

10th October 2023 [BLAZINblitzer]

This gloops and bloops itā€™s way into some cute lil pockets nawww. Way cleverer than itā€™s veneer suggests - got some meat and potatoes under the hood. Idk the chord/key/melody (yeah seriously idk) choices are weird but gorgeous; giving me multicoloured fishie vibes but the fishie is in love and likes twee(d); shoegaze but in poppier shoes than she usually flaunts.

Trip rating: getting high with my pet eel and his friend, the seal

Album rating: [3.5] to begin with tho I can see its giblets working their way under my heart help [3.7] there are so many little immaculate glistening details to this I am bamboozled
11Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation
Mirage

11th October 2023 [SINT]

This is nice! I like this! Very pleasant! Very danceable! Somewhere in the kraut/psych rock spectrum with some shoegazey/triphopy tendencies. Kinda v/a/g/u/e the whisper vox kinda flutter about rather than making a statement and songs come go come go without jamming a hook into my chest.

Trip rating: brownies with grandma

Album rating: [3.3]
12Szun Waves
New Hymn to Freedom

12th October 2023 [SNIFF]

New Hymn to Freedom is that moment where you realise that you are more drunk than you realised like the shapes were cogent and now they are gone and youā€™re dancing and sleeping and canā€™t stop. I was going to walking around and would forget what happened. For that reason alone, a cool new agey weirdo jazz electronicA thing.

Trip rating: ANOTHER SHOT PLEASE BARMAN

Album rating: [3.7]
13Can
Tago Mago

13th October 2023 [CYLINDER]

Woof one of the big bois OKAY Halleluhwah is absurd and magical and very stoned and I love it; Aumgn and Peking O are weird as fek and I need more time to decide if I love their wavey incoherence or want to kill them with a shovel.

Update (12.10.23): ima have to move on knowing that i havent fully bottomed out this or my relationship with this - far too much rich soupy goodness here to grasp in 2 days and 3 listens - but overall i currently think it is lovely. Stonking big grooves that it takes pleasure in disintegrating /// setting on fire. Listened to as the full 2LP makes me far less patient with the silliness in the second-half, but listened to in two sittings/parts = fresh and non-weary experience of the latter tracks = stupid good sky high losing mind couch sinking leaf scoffing afsljaliwaa KAAAAAAAAA sknandfadfpiefjaal chaljvalffaldjaj cbasbascbshdbsfvb.

Trip rating: hallucinogenic sauerkraut

Album rating: [4]
14Mid-Air Thief
Crumbling

14th October 2023 [PRANCER]

Regularly cute, often beautiful, many hugs, yay. Particularly like this when it dials in the upbeat folktronica; the more ambient, hazy, dream pop asides are less exciting to the empty space between my ears. I can just sense thisā€™ll have worked itā€™s way deep into my soul, given time and rain.

Trip rating: the gummy worms are everywhere

Album rating: [3.7]
15Soccer96
Dopamine

15th October 2023 [POTS]

I listened to it. I liked it. I was distracted when I heard it. I will try again later.

I tried again later. Texturally interesting, aesthetically very cute and nostalgic, but pacing a bit ZOIKS never quite gets me hooked feels like a sinkhole made out of crawling pink wigs and dusty videogame cartridges.

Trip rating: playing pong, alone

Album rating: [3]
16Om
Advaitic Songs

16th October 2023 [DEDEX]

Lovely lush dust bowl melodies; cute novel take on the stoner rock ting w/ more raga etc. flourishes, definitely psych very hypnotic yes yes yes BUT i kinda wish it did a lil something extra with it, ya know? Theyā€™re quite content to sit on the same progression for 10 mins and not play around with it substantially, which is a shame. Also, when youā€™re innovating, why stick so firmly to the cheesy vox style that, although I donā€™t mind, feels a bit off, when the broader soundscape has grown so much further; AND, if you're gonna lean in to the very NOT heavy lane of the genre, why not go HAZIER, double track lengths, become indecipherable, get silly? Idk, probs being a whinge as I mostly very like this, it's just things like 3 do it better.

Trip rating: Godspeed you! Wack metal.

Album rating: [3.7]
17Ultimate Spinach
Behold and See

17th October 2023 [PORC]

Cute, very blues forward old school psych prog rock mellow jams. Canā€™t see myself coming back to it, but perfectly lovely, Jazz Thing especially.

Trip rating: lounge chair bong vibes

Album rating: [3.5]
18Luuli
Luuli

18th October 2023 [AVAGANTAMOS]

What in the name of all that is holy did you just make me listen to lol heck. Ninety ( 9 0 ) mins of rough and ready psycore trance mind fuckery of the highest order am i seeing things there is alien and mushroom made of clouds and the river is filled with rhubarb and fig tarts. Feels very much IN DRAFT /// soundcloud hot hecking deth chaotic nonsense and idk if im qualified to appraise something so far out of my wheelhouse but if you want to feel lost and scared i mean this'll do it.

Trip rating: literal fucking seizure

Album rating: [3.7]
19The United States of America
The United States of America

19th October 2023 [ARS]

Just weird lol carousel dingaling violin warble kinda psych pop kinda janky strange psych rock kinda a bit weeeeeeeeeee of everything must have been wild in 1967/8. The opener and closer in particular are hallucinogenic mind melters of weird samples, flashbacks/forwards, the goof is everywhere and growing, ayayayayaya. Cloud Song is pretty. Very very very very very much NOT my usual thing, and some of the blue(sy) cheese just grates an eek out of me. Pls donā€™t hate me ars I wanted to like this more than I do it is really cool but not my personal individual special snowflake vibe aaaahhhhhhhhh.

Trip rating: communism

Album rating: [3.5]
20Purplefox Town
Purplefox Town

20th October 2023 [SOME(BODY)ON(C)E TOLD ME]

V cute I went to Prague like last year they have great beer and great people and good goulash and quite niche psych rock pop prog, apparently. Slightly too mellow for my taste - feel like committing more one any one of its influences would also have made it more characterful / individualistic.

Trip rating: drinking pilsner urquell from a purple fez

Album rating: [3.3]
21Shrinebuilder
Shrinebuilder

21st October 2023 [PIKA]

Gosh Iā€™ve realised I need to get a move on with these recs heck right this is very much in the lane of 16 but doomier and worse and probably suffering supergroupitus. Mostly unobjectionable, but does not grease my nips like Iā€™d like it to (particularly the occasional Cookie Monster vox ayyyy what are you doing bro).

Trip rating: asleep on a camel

Album rating: [2.7]
22The Growlers
Are You In or Out?

22nd October 2023 [WIDOW]

Fun times stompy rompy vox with oodles of character reverby guitar with oodles of character aloof vibes with aloof character of oodles. Mildly bluesy haunted house surf rock. Itā€™s nice!

Trip rating: im in

Album rating: [3.5]
23The Future Sound of London
The Isness

23rd October 2023 [BITTERjalapeno]

Hodgepodge alert we have a hodgepodge nobody panic. Idk where to begin uh itā€™s proggier and folkier than I was expecting for what I understood to be an ambient techno downtempo kinda band, but I take it thereā€™s some weirdness with it not actually being a FSOL album I can see weā€™re already getting confused. BIG trip! Lots of things! Very effervescent like a tablet in water in my brain or a cannon. Eclectic in a way that may undercut something idfk. God im tired.

Trip rating: why is the ocean upside down?

Album rating: [3.7]
24The Olivia Tremor Control
Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1

24th October 2023 [CON]

Ah Elephant 6 you do hath some juicy fruits. Honestly I have no fucking excuse for not having checked this band sooner given their ties to NMH. Trippy 60s psych pop goodness but torn to shreds and put back together half a dozen times what the fuck is happening. Occasionally goes in an elliott smith direction, then back to the beatles / beach boys, then very much into its own hallucinations+cuteness thing. Big heavy onion, this. Good onion. Six pound onion. Lots of collage-y layers. Gonna take some time to cry my way through ā€˜em all but I currently think this is hugs.

Trip rating: SEAMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS

Album rating: [4]
25High Rise
II

25th October 2023 [FOXXXY]

The most fun Iā€™ve had with any music in any genre in ages!!! Stupid haywire passionate solo-ing forever and ever and ever. Noisy Japanese Rock with soul. Low on the psych but high on the catharsis.

Trip rating: wweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Album rating: [4.3]
26Nightmares On Wax
Smoker's Delight

26th October 2023 [KOMPYS]

Sky high sunny day trip hop ish tings with thicc grooves of the bounce and good heat radiation but god either I was not in the mood for this level of repetition or this is simply not my bag. Dizzying and amorphous. Perhaps better designed for background vibe creation; did not work wonders as an attentive front to back listen.

Trip rating: sun glare

Album rating: [3]
27Kubero DĆ­az y La Pesada
Kubero DĆ­az y La Pesada

27th October 2023 [SLOTH]

I seem to have an irrational hatred of the album art which is bleeding into my appreciation of this fun lil romp. Dirty mildly lo-fi bluesy hard rock nā€™ roll that occasionally goes a kinda RUSH-BUT-HIGH direction before pivoting into the beatles wut. Production is off putting. Not much else to dislike, but for some reason I am feeling very un-enamoured (maybe the vox irk idk?).

Trip rating: visitors can typically find cannabis very easily

Album rating: [2.7]
28Tame Impala
Lonerism

28th October 2023 [CAMILO]

60s/70s psych tour de everything released in 2012, it says here. Wouldnā€™t have guessed it, though, kinda like 24; aside from a few slights of hand de la modernity, sheā€™s an oldie/goodie. Ngl, not my favourite lane of the genre, but I mean I felt very high and I liked it and was smiling alot, so.

Trip rating: cloud 10

Album rating: [3.5]
29The Legendary Pink Dots
The Maria Dimension

29th October 2023 [MYSTAGOGUS]

This is the 305th album I have heard in this list series thing uh if youā€™re still reading thanks.

Space rock in the mellow sense with kinda classically inspired proggy touches and then nick cave-y emotional asides and then a touch of jazz and gosh itā€™s weird and surreal but ethereal and good.

Trip rating: ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Album rating: [3.5]
30Melody's Echo Chamber
Bon Voyage

30th October 2023 [ARS2]

Cute! Enjoy the very 28 psych pop whirlwind but much prefer the vox on this kinda Lenker-y but French and Psych and pleasant gosh itā€™s kinda soothing for all the swirling colours.

Trip rating: a high hug

Album rating: [3.7]
31Mink Mussel Creek
Mink Mussel Manticore

31st October 2023 [SLOTH2]

Ooooh this is fun kinda long form stoner-y psych rock wearing sabbath on its sleeves by some of the members of Tame Impala and Pond. Straightforward but lovely. Especially love the drum pit pats they do add the spice, as can be said of the unexpectedly expressive vocal performances especially near the back end. Really lovely.

Trip rating: a good trip

Album rating: [3.7] actually Iā€™m stupid [4]
32Plasticland
Plasticland

32nd October 2023 [PROTOKUTE]

So, as it turns out, me and jangly garage-y post-punk, plus psych, do not get on. Found the whole thing very grating I apologise!!! Vox yelps not for me, shrill guitar over incessant bass not for me, back-to-basics song structures not for me.

Trip rating: a bad trip

Album rating: [2]
33Colour Haze
Colour Haze

33rd October 2023 [MEATsalad2]

Holy shit ā€œLoveā€ into ā€œSolitudeā€ almost made me tear up this is insane. Causa Sui meets Kyuss in that gorgeous sun kissed desert/dessert rock jam vibes itā€™s so warmmmm. Stupid huge stupid heavy stupid delicate and thoughtful and well composed and paced and heck heck heck heck.

Trip rating: sliding up a sand dune backwards

Album rating: [4.3]
34Deakin
Sleep Cycle

34th October 2023 [TIM2]

Opener is a folk masterpiece. The rest is hazier and rich and there is life here itā€™s teeming and itā€™s just lovely. Backstory to this is very cool - long in the making love letter to a place and a time - and for once I did the lyric read along which was transformative what a lovely album I need to do lyric read alongs more often. Really moving idk why. Seriously I donā€™t get it why I am crying.

Trip rating: the way you get a lil baby rainbow when you water grass in the sun

Album rating: [4.3]
35Grizzly Bear
Yellow House

35th October 2023 [PRANCER2]

Fleet Foxes, but stoned. Indie folk bongs for the masses. Mostly love! Feels a little flat after 34. Relatively is a bitch; probably would have been bawling my eyes out to this instead, otherwise.

Trip rating: my guitar and the chords is squiggly

Album rating: [3.7]
36The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request

36th October 2023 [POTS2]

Feels like 1969 but is actually 1996 = confuSION!!!! Mild Spaceman 3 / Spiritualized VIBES a la gospel and soul atop blusey folken psych weeeewoooweeewooooo-s. Love letter to past via derivation but also cute updates like itā€™s occasionally shoegazey and that is cool. Long as balls and two listens in makes this a first impression more than anything.

Trip rating: IT WAS THE SUMMER OF ā€˜99

Album rating: [3.5]
37Bong
Mana-Yood-Sushai

37th October 2023 [me]

Whhhhoooooooooaaaaaaahhhh the most hazy boi since 3 this is what I wanted from 16 blazed to heck droning doom (and I am mid on doom, typically) that just makes head spin but in relaxing concentric circles it goes on and on and on and on and

Trip rating: accidentally touching your third eye after chopping chillies

Album rating: [4]
38Time Machines
Time Machines

38th October 2023 [MYSTAGOGUS2]

Four big olā€™ drones, each symbolizing a hallucinogenic substance, and each very fucking hallucinogenic, Jesus. Spatialisation, loops, binaural stuff going on (apparently) itā€™s trippy and dark like Infinite Jest addiction fuckery long corridors without windows and the walls are breathing.

Trip rating: sine waves falling on my head, like anvils

Album rating: [4] probs underrating this was wild actually ye [4.3] actually otherworldly
39Acid Mothers Temple
Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars

39th October 2023 [PORC2]

Any time someone gives me that Japanese noisy shit I check jonathan's ratings to ascertain whether or not im supposed to like the record but holy heck this has not been rated by mr wellski ima have to come up with my own opinion ... uh ... it's GOOD!!! Like, really great super soupy loopy psych rock very elongated but that made the time pass very quickly yet loads of nutty, rich goodness baked into the fudge brownie layers.

Trip rating: nuts

Album rating: also nuts [4]
40Motorpsycho
Heavy Metal Fruit

40th October 2023 [DEEZ]

Immaculate run of easy grooving long bois this is sublime. On the proggier end of the spectrum which isnā€™t usually my bag, but itā€™s just so vivid idk the colours pop and burst in real time pinks and greens and golds is beautiful as my head gets stuck in the loop again.

Trip rating: a very painful pineapple

Album rating: [4]
41A.R. and Machines
Die Grune Reise

41st October 2023 [TECTATOE]

1971?! Jesus. Ahead of this time out of this world etc loads of vocal and other loops very spinning teacup kinda visage. Belies just how good the down the middle safe as Susan psych rock bits are (they are good). Does feel a bit like a scrap book of ideas more than it does a final product, for which points shall be docked, but itā€™s got a charm to it that means you wonā€™t mind a bit.

Trip rating: loops everywhere loops everywhere loops everywhere loops

Album rating: [3.5]
42Hum
Inlet

42nd October 2023 [MORT]

That guitar/bass tone plus the snare tone plus the shoegaze-y ethereal-ness tone = some good tones right here. Tees (I think I mean "toes") that line between girth and grace in a way I've heard very little guitar music do in a long ol' while, topped off with just perfect production for the style. Only two listens deep, but the lyrics are already drawing me in further.

*exhale*

Trip rating: Not with a bang, a whimper or even a skronk but, rather, with a hum.

Album rating: [4]
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