Easysleeves: Pangea (2009)

Okay, this is my band. I don't want to say too much about it. If you like the rest of the music on this blog then you will probably also dig this. Just check it out, I promise you will not be disappointed.

Rockfour: Supermarket (2000)

So you never heard of Rockfour? You aren't alone. And if you have you already know everything I'm about to say. Rockfour is a psych-rock band from Israel. Their first 3 albums are in Hebrew. This is their first English release. Words cannot describe how amazing this album is. It will blow your mind, I promise you, just do everything in your power to get a copy.

Mirror Mirror: The Society For the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness (2008)

I love this album. The closest thing to Piper that you will find out there. This is some way the fuck out there stuff. What a trip! This is one of the best psychedelic albums to come out in the past 40 years. My hat is off to them. They really crafted a masterpiece here.

Caribou: Andorra (2007)

This dude really needs to embrace the psych-genre and get this album out of the "electronica" realm. Much of it is electronic but not in the really lame way that electronic music usually is. This is a great psych-pop album with amazing vocal harmonies, cut-ups, and divine melodies. Any psych fan will find a lot to love here.

Darker My Love: Darker My Love (2006)

Founded by members of hardcore-punk band The Nerve Agents. Strange huh? What does it sound like? Well some pretty spacey droning psych rock. And it's really good for what it's aiming for. Lots of organ, clavinet, and tremelo-vocals. I dig it. 

The Bees: Octopus (2007)

By far one of the best and most talented musical efforts in the past few years. From reggae to funk to psych to spanish-vocals-sitar-latin music this album does it all. This album goes best when just getting high with your friends. Whenever I'm with a bunch of people with different music tastes and don't know what to put on, this album does the trick. Hip-hop fans can dig it, reggae fans can dig it, rock, pop, salsa, psych, indie, alt. This album will be adored by anyone who listens to it. It's just so fucking fun!

The Stone Roses: Stone Roses (1989)

What fascinates me most about The Stone Roses was where they were in the Manchester scene. In Manchester in the 80's and 90's people were taking psychedelics and euphorics and going to clubs for music. By the late 80's and early 90's this scene became extremely superficial because of the simplicity of DJ's playing dance music for people on drugs. The Stone Roses bridged this gap. They played 60's influenced psych-pop-alt-rock that worked for these dance crowds. Wanting to feel the music and have drug induced experiences to it has sadly been reduced to trance music created on a lap top, and the Stone Roses remain one of the last actual bands to be able to gain the attention of the dance-club generation while still remaining innovative and creative (they wrote songs!). What happened? We lost our attention span, and like everything else in this world, people demand instant generic pleasure provided by mindless DJ's. This is an ecstasy album just as much as it is an acid album and maybe that's why it worked. But like many others I'm sure, I long for the day that the drug crowd once again can appreciate ambitious creative music created by musicians and not just computers.