Pink Floyd – 1967 Singles Sampler

I think some of these songs are not that easy to find actually? Here’s the tracklist:

1. Arnold Lane
2. Candy and a Current Bun
3. See Emily Play
4. Scarecrow
5. Apples and Oranges
6. Paintbox

I didn’t have them at least, and I like Syd Barrett, so there.

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The Aliens – Luna

A great release from The Aliens, whose members stem from Beta Band. The album goes on for more than an hour, two songs over ten minutes, but this album is in fact a constant stream of different musical ideas – sometimes they’re pieced together in one song, sometimes they split, lose the focus a bit and wander off. The essence of Luna are vocal harmonies in differrent styles, from glam, funk and ballad to Syd Barret-flavoured pop psyche, with lots of effects and layered instruments playing behind. Would be a great live experience I imagine.

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Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Merriweather Post Pavilion is one of those albums which, after you’ve listened to it for the first time, you don’t really remember a lot, it leaves you overwhelmed with sounds but you just know that you’re gonna love it as you listen to it again and again. My ticket to the strange world of Animal Collective was the adorable Panda Bear’s solo album.

The songs here are a constant overlapping celebration, odes to joy wrapped in synthesized sounds. Most of the sounds actually come from various electronics, yet there is no sense of artificial or alienation – on the contrary, it is so much more human than anything. Like our thoughts and feelings, they unpredictably meander and twist between familiar (the sky-high melodies) and unknown (the psychedelic electronic sounds). It’s most likely one the albums which will mark the year ahead of us.

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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume 2

An ambient classic, over two and a half hours of Aphex Twin’s anti-music. It’s very hard to describe it as on the surface it’s quiet, undefined yet you feel that it always reflects and creates emotions. There’s an air of feeling uncomfortable. It doesn’t have any pattern, it flows freely as a state of mind.

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Flying Lotus – Los Angeles

Hey everybody! It’s been a long journey and now this blog is alive again.

A few textures deep hazy mix, perfect soundtrack to walking around a modern city in the night, when psychedelic is the escape and the means. He goes a lot further in experimentation than Massive Attack for instance. Largely instrumental, but there are three hypnotic vocal tracks as well. The torrent includes nice artwork in PDF.

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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

At the moment The Beach Boys are my favourite old band, so I’m trying to find as much of their material on the web as possible. But no matter which compilation you find, it is never complete without the complete Pet Sounds album. It’s a classic, claimed by many to be their best ever, the first album Brian Wilson wrote after he quit touring with the band and with great focus on vocal and (often unconventional, especially for those days – 1966) instrumental harmonies.

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Syd Barrett – Peel Sessions

It’s amazing how many people played a John Peel session. Even Syd Barrett.

‘Cause we’re the fishes and all we do
the move about is all we do
well, oh baby, my hairs on end about you…

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