The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

is this a joke? is it supposed to be some Renaissance LARPer parody??? psych hippy-dippy rock is quickly becoming a least favorite genre. sad attempt at playing instruments & awful vocals. lyrics make zero sense

Boy oh boy, in theory this should be right up my alley. I like folk music, I like call and response songs, I like songs with only a few instruments and I like songs with lots of singers and instruments. This album has all of that. Unfortunately, none of it is done well. If there's a singular lead singer, which I think there is, he has a tinny, hollow voice with absolutely no depth. When he's joined by the others and the instruments, instead of a Phil Spector style Wall of Sound you get more of a shower curtain of noise. Technically there's something there, and god bless them they are trying, but it's thin, unpleasant and I can pretty much hear right through it. Some of these songs have the production and entertainment quality of a Ren faire band playing on the fourth stage, the one you accidentally stumble upon because you were looking for a turkey leg. I'm not sure what the target audience for this was back in 1968. I wasn't born yet, but if I had been, there would have been no bullseye on my back as this wasn't for me. 1/5

Looked like a Captain Beefheart and yes. Sounds a bit like it. I loved it

Wow, some of y’all are dramatic. This is just some old-school pastoral folk tunes with a little extra instrumentation. It’s whimsical, but takes itself seriously. Feels a little haunting, a little silly, and may require some suspension of disbelief. Get on board, it’s a nice listen. I liked it. Probably closer to three stars in actuality but come on, you guys would take the eighth-best Elvis Costello album over this? You’d prefer fifteen below-average Bripop records? Get real.

What a beauty! Unrelentingly Albion folk psychedelia that runs against the modernity of 1968 and that of today. This album transports me to some jolly Hobbit shire situation I'd generally rather be in than wherever I am at the moment. They are like the Spike Jones of the Woodstock lineup, having just enough of a smirk to them to keep it from being too arch.

Witches Hat A Very Cellular Song

6/10 The Incredible String Band are a group that are frequently cited as influences by a lot of great bands, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, David Bowie and one of my personal favourites, Boards Of Canada. Despite that, they’re a group that I’ve never sought out up to this point. Perhaps it’s the psychedelic folk descriptions, or the twee hippy nature of the album artwork that you can almost smell. But regardless of that, I’m quite looking forward to this one. I think what’s immediately interesting about this record is that, particularly for the time, it has a very broad sonic palette, with a wide range of instruments from different cultures blended with more traditional British folk instrumentation. With that blend, they create an evolving, fluctuating soundscape of a record that, while having it’s heart in the traditions of British folk, feels like a broader exploration of traditional music from around the globe. With that Britishness at its centre, it is very twee in places, and you can almost see the morris dancers donning their outfits, but I suspect that the vast majority of morris dancers would quickly become confused and then a little scared if attempting to dance to this record. The general vibe is one of a cultish group of hippies that have a slightly menacing air to them, and I think that edge of weirdness is really one of the strengths of the work. Compositionally, it’s really interesting as they work with non-standard structures, uneven sequence lengths, and dips into non-western scales and microtonality. It doesn’t always completely connect, and there are times when I wasn’t sure if the melodic choices were intentional or poorly performed. I think sometimes the former, and sometimes the latter in all honesty. I can understand why, at first wash, or as a background listen, this might come across as fairly impenetrable, obtuse music that lacks centre and definition, but I think that, looking under the surface and spending a bit more time focused on it, there’s a lot of value in what’s been produced here. Compared to some of their contemporaries, I suspect that this hasn’t quite stood the test of time in the same way, as a lot of the ideas within have subsequently been moulded into more palatable forms, but there is a certain organic, rough-edged charm to this record. While I don’t think it’s brilliant, I do feel like the band is trying to do something interesting, and I’d honestly rather listen to this than a lot of the cookie-cutter by-the-numbers bullshit that a lot of musicians put out. And while it’s weird, it revels in and celebrates that weirdness admirably. I spent a lot of the time listening to this album and struggling with how I felt about it, but the very fact that it was somewhat challenging is a part of its value. I suspect I might dip back into this now and again, and there’s every chance it could be one of those records that I learn to love, or even learn to hate. But I’m glad to have listened to it, and I’m going to sit somewhere in the middle on my rating. For now. Koeeoaddi There - Well it’s certainly broad in its sound palette, and musically roaming. They change tempo like it’s going out of fashion and appear to have ransacked every instrument shop they could find. There are some very nice melodic moments, but they don’t hang around on them for long. As background music, this did feel like a fairly obtuse structural mess, but when listening more closely, I think there’s something to it. It’s a journey. A weird and twee one, but a journey nonetheless. And I can’t quite decide about it. The Minotaur's Song - The call and response work here is interesting and the choral work is really nice. It definitely leans into the weird and feels an awful lot like the weird music that a pagan cult would sing to each other in some kind of ceremony, but I quite like that as an approach. The lead vocal has a very purposeful pronunciation and delivery to it that gives it an even more absurdist edge. I can’t quite work out if they’re mad or brilliant, but I think if you were to watch this being performed from afar and zoom in at the last moment to reveal that it was a Monty Python sketch, people would be hailing its genius. Witches Hat - Yep, definitely weird. But if you allow yourself to drift along with it, there’s a certain charm and whimsy to it. The approach to having a central key is… loose, to say the least, and this one is perhaps a bit more hard to get my head around, but I think it still does something interesting. A Very Cellular Song - Ah, so they’re not pagan, they’re part of Jesus’ crew. There are some cool rhythms and harmonic sections here, particularly through the chanted sections. They mess around won the extremities of tuning in places, but it does feel deliberate. They throw in so many different movements and sections across this track that it really is cellular. Some of the bits are great, some of them drag, but at least there are moments of interesting structural composition or sonic arrangement scattered freely across the record. There’s no getting away from the slightly absurdist nature of it, but again, it’s a device that they are fully committed too, and at least it’s interesting. It’s ver long, but it’t almost like a selection of ideas strung together into an overarching narrative (of sorts), so it doesn’t linger on anything for too long. Mercy I Cry City - Again, there are some good rhythms, and the guitar work is pretty strong. When things gather up into a slightly more coherent musical blend for the chorus, I think some of the sequence cycling lengths are very cool. The flute feels quite random, so drags things into that more musically obtuse direction. So it’s still as mad as a box of frogs. But I also still feel oddly drawn to elements of it. Waltz Of The New Moon - Robert Plant referenced this record as an influence on Led Zeppelin, and I can certainly hear some of that on this track. The ambience is cool, and while it does drift a bit too much from a pitch point of view here and there, there is still something that’s weirdly endearing about it. It’s probably a bit too long and doesn’t do as much to make it as weird and interesting as some of the other tracks, but there are still some cool moments. The Water Song - Ok, so this is starting to drag a bit now. This one is far more roaming and doesn’t manage to connect so well with the weirder edge of things that they were dealing with in earlier sections. It’s quite roaming, but in a less interesting way and it feels a bit more like a more standard folksy composition, lacking the absurdist element that’s drawn me to the work. The weird sound effect bit in the middle is strange, but I’m generally less keen on this. Three Is A Green Crown - Now they’re committing further to the more south-east asian instrumental choices, and play with microtonal elements within the vocal work too. While the Beatles had worked with sitar on records before this, a more fully fledged dive into music of this style on a folk record like this must have been something relatively new at the time. There are some lovely bits of melody in here and the instrumental work creates a very thick and interesting harmonic blend. The vibe is excellent too. Again, I don’t really love it, but I can certainly appreciate it, even if it’s a bit on the long side. Swift As The Wind - Ok, again, this one drifts towards being a more compositionally basic piece of folk music. There are moments of quality in there, but it doesn’t deliver on the weirder edge of the ledger, except in small patches here and there. Tonally, it’s a bit of a struggle in a few places too, but without the whimsy and charm of the earlier work. It just feels a bit scattergun and less coherent. I think the album might be a bit too long. Nightfall - This one kind of gathers up the more straight folksy edge with some of the interesting instrumental choices and presents some very nice and considered pieces of melody, alongside a charming and rich vibe and tonal blend. It’s very pretty stuff and, while it still has a slightly sinister edge, I think it wraps up the record very well.

At some moment in time, the gods of public opinion decided that this would be one of the site's despised albums. It's playful and whimsical if not the most catchy or hooky of music, it's still good fun and it deserves better

Awful!

Aaaaah shit... Dit is een folk album he? Eentje waar eigenlijk alle aandacht naar de teksten moet gaan, anders mis je driekwart van waarom mensen deze muziek luisteren. Ik probeer het wel, maar het klinkt allemaal gewoon zo erg als de muziek die je hoort op een middeleeuwse markt. En dat is nou niet bepaald prikkelend... Voor mij persoonlijk hangt deze muziekstijl heel erg samen met de kwaliteit van de zanger, als die ontzettend goed is of heel erg de aandacht weet vast te houden, dan heb je goud in handen. Ja dat is dus hier niet het geval. Men heeft hier zeker geen goud in handen, de zang is matig, de lyrics slaan he-le-maal nergens op en dan heb ik het nog niet eens gehad over hoe dit album muzikaal klinkt... Ten eerste klinkt het muzikaal echt alsof iedereen maar wat doet. Witches Hat is een goed voorbeeld hiervan waarop iedereen zn eigen nummer aan het spelen is. Dat was al erg genoeg geweest, maar nee; ER IS MEER! Want welk instrument was er blijkbaar in de middeleeuwen? DE KAZOO. De FUCKING kazoo... Daarnaast word er op een fluit gespeeld alsof iemand zn leven er van afhangt, de muziek is onsamenhangend, niet goed en daarnaast ook gewoon ontzettend onnodig. Ik begrijp niets van dit album en na een aantal lekkere, prettige albums voelt dit als een koude douche op een festivalcamping: iets waar je echt geen zin in hebt, maar je maar doorheen probeert te sleuren... Echt, dit album had lekker in de middeleeuwen mogen blijven. FAVO: help

Strano.

Did not enjoy.

Nechápem, čo to robí v tomto zozname...

Well, today I learned: the only thing I hate more than folk is...........psychedelic folk. This album is a drugged up collection of weird, medieval sounding 'tunes' with bad singing, pointless instrumentation and ridiculous lyrics. Honestly, why is 'The Cellular Song' so freaking long when it is absolute, stone-cold, certified bollocks?!?!?!?!? I really hope these people felt silly when the drugs finally wore off and they looked at what they had bestowed upon the world. There are not enough drugs in the world to make me want to listen to this again. NEVER.

This was psychedelic and long, all right. You know, I could confidently describe this as medieval-sounding sea shanties. It certainly has its charm, but that's all I can say for it.

Pre Listen: Never heard of this group, but I dig the album cover. Chancing a guess that it'll be string-based music based on the band's name? If not I will feel misled, and give them a 1 for being liars. Notable Tracks: Koeeoaddi There - Ah! Heard a Bell and other percussion instruments! Instant 1. Nah this is neat, it's giving Renaissance style mixed with Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and Psychedelia Era Beatles. Wondering if it'll get old before the end of the album though. A Very Cellular Song - Frustrating song, it has my favorite section in the whole album "Good Night" is a joyful ditty, somewhat catchy, and carries good vibes. Every other part of the song is bad. Swift as the Wind - Least favorite song, and exemplifies everything wrong with this album. I wonder how many more drawn out "Aaaaaaa"s they could've fitted in here before even they realized they went too far. Post Listen: Album got old before the end. One of those ones where the vocalist sort of ruins everything in a most horrific, ear-bleeding fashion. Many such cases. Pros, this album has a great variety of musical instruments it uses to great affect to create some really interesting sounds. Some are more experimental, but most of the time it works and sounds fun. Then you got the lead vocalist butt in with absolute nonsense lyrics. He's got the flattest voice you've ever heard, and he goes on and on, it starts to feel like having a fly in your ear. I really wanted to give this album at least a 3, it's got clear international influence across many of the songs (mostly Indian), and it gives green-puff Wizard vibes at it's best. At it's worst though the lead vocalist hurt me. I really hate it when a band as a group can't just tell their shitty vocalist to sit down and shut up. 2/5

Nope. I love my folk music, but this was just grating. Couldn't get through it

An album I can smell. Grating but funny for the first 15 minutes.

I wanted to hate this when I saw the cover, but I…ended up hating it way more than I even expected. What a steaming pile of crap!

I’m glad this exists and I’m glad I listened to it. It’s like a time capsule into the youth of baby boomers, obsessed with LSD, peace, love, and sex, a window into their world before they became capitalist overlords and ruined our world. The music? Glib and corny

Another run of the mill 60s hippie psychedelic folk album

It sounded like what I imagined you would stumble upon in some city center in medieval times, not on this list.

Reminds me of Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn, released the same year and also in the UK, but quieter and more varied in instrumentation, and even more focused on whimsy. I'm fascinated by major success of whimsical, children's imaginations-inspired psych folk, am anachronism now and possibly then. It was a different time in '68, but listening to it now still conjures distant lands of bygone times, or times that never happened, enveloping the listener in stories that mute our troubles of reality and replaces them with tranquility, or strange new unknown troubles.

310. ok

Pas aimé, tres psychedelic j'ai pas reussi a terminer. Il chante come s'il etait defonce.

J'ai l'impression qu'un groupe de saltimbanques s'est introduit dans mon bureau pour me réclamer de l'argent en jouant de la sitare. Laissez-moi tranquille, c'est cataclysmique. C'est quand même censé être les 1001 albums à avoir écouté dans sa vie, 3 jours par semaine c'est .... Disons complexe. J'ai pas bu aller au bout

How much acid does one have to drop for this to sound good? Folksy hippie-dippy bullshit with clichéd lyrics delivered by a vocalist who can't sing. Looking at the group on the album's cover art, you are telling me this guy was the best singer of the bunch? A lot of the bad music from this era that was once popular has been forgotten to time and we tend to just remember the greats, but hearing this was a stark reminder of why a lot of hippie music was so hated by the next generation.

Psychedelic folk from Scotland. Should have been right up my alley, but damn I did not get into this at all.

Well that was something.

This goofy ass hobbit music made me irrationally angry. I couldn’t finish it. Listening to half is honestly more than it deserves. It felt like a parody album the whole way through.

Screw this.

Good God. The most awful noise ever created by man. I managed to listen to about 4 tracks and then conceded defeat.

Hi genuine questions what the fuck is the point of this? If I was in this band I'd get bored before the end of the song and lose track of where we were. Better than Pink fucking Floyd but only just

Absolute garbage. This is the kind of album that people parody when thinking of 60s psych. There aren't enough drugs in the world to make it palatable.

As it stands The Incredible’s are 8th bottom equal in the global popularity chart. This makes me sad as I can remember listening to John Peel’s radio show and he played them a lot. Back then that meant a lot and you were considered really cool at school if you were able to show that you were a great authority on some obscure band. Even better if you managed to purchase and display an album of the said Peel favourite. Never went as far as spending my meagre income on this album as there were a host of better ones to spend it on. Listening today you can tell how far out it was back in 1968. So whilst in ‘68 it would have boosted your hippy credentials today it’s a bit embarrassing to admit you ever gave this ear room. So I give it a nostalgic 3 - if for nothing else to help it pull away from position 1081. 3/5 9/10/26

I feel like this is the soundtrack to going to a renaissance fair tripping on acid, but minus the turkey legs, buxom, corseted large ladies bouncing about and fun activities like axe throwing. If I had an axe, I would throw it at the whatever sound system was blaring this from the speakers. The positives? You get to hear every non-essential folk instrument that artists of the 60s revived when baroque pop was created and all at once with an oscillating, nasally drone vocal that would make the most strident Bob Dylan hater bring it all back home on highway highway 61. Harpsichords, mandolins, dulcimers, sitars, all varieties of flutes, whistles and mouth harps like a summer night full of cicadas. This also reminds me of something the Vietnam vet I used to buy pot from when I was a teenager would make me listen to before I could leave his trailer. The best song is Nightfall because it’s the last one but, this album hath lingering effects that make consider galliarding about my abode drinking mead. 2.5

This sounded like a group of hippies got invited to a party, took a bucket load of acid and tried to make a folk Christmas album at that party.

No standouts

Very strange, but somehow on my wavelength

Very nice music.

Pirate shanties

Folks late 60’s low-fi

I’m just trying to imagine a time in the future when I’d want to put this on. A drive on a sunny day? Curled up in front of the fire while the snow gently falls outside? Morning workout? I guess it’s really the perfect soundtrack for everything. Thanks, list.

Yet another prime example of "come on guys, it's really not that bad." This is a really average folk album, sure it has a few elements that make it a bit more psychadelic and experimental, but I really don't understand why you lot hate it so much. If anything, I just appreciate that even though I didn't absolutely love this, it most definitely wasn't generic. They took a lot of risks and did things in an unconventional way, which maybe about 50% of the time, payed off really well. So in conclusion, this is perfectly enjoyable but nothing too special, and you lot are weak as always.

Absolutely nuts. Just off the wall psychedelia. Not an easy listen but you can hear how influential it's been.

Do not get the hate for this in the reviews at all. I mean psychedelic folk isn't really my thing either, but I can't imagine listening to Very Cellular Song, say, and getting nothing out of its shifting, evolving form. Very much of its time, and I can't imagine how many drugs were consumed in its making, but interesting throughout.

somehow, the album cover is exactly what I would expect this album to sound like

There are some fine songs here. I don't care for the western attempting to do the IndiAN off key. It's a different scale, if it's not consistant, it just sounds bad/ 2.5/5

I feel like this group would live on Summerisle or perhaps in the woods to serenade any passers by. This type of folk is fine but I think I would have given it more stars if the instruments weren't out of key.

really not my type of music

Ya, I couldn't stand most of the songs

Woof! Unlistenable. 1 out of 5.

Kind of jangly

I don't know what renaissance bong inspired melody I just experienced but I dont want to do it again

+1 points for featuring a mouth harp. 2/5

2.34100

What the ever loving fuck?

Another weirdo 60’s psych/folk album that’s probably way better if you’re high as shit, but alas, I was not 😔 1.5⭐️

Makes me want to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 2.5 I guess....half star bump for originality?

2/10

Trop Space

There’s moments I love it, moments I hate it. A singular, outlandish document of a time and place. Glad I wasn’t there though. If the sounds are this madcap, I can’t imagine the smells.

The incredible waste of time

Ugh! The vocals were the worst!

Was going to give it two stars because it's just so out there. Despite the bad vocals and instrumentation that clashes. But the lyrics. Oof. No. Minotaurs "His habits are preicta-bull, aggressively relia-bull". (groan) Hippy Nonsense : "The eyelid of a god is approaching". "Where the flowers are free and the fishes ask ah what can water be". (nope)

Very 60's experimental. Drugs would probably help. Surprisingly influential, but I was unable to fully appreciate it.

Like I died and resurrected inside a Ren Faire.

pésimo

I ended up skipping quickly through most of this. Just didn't find it interesting or to my taste. I may have to give it another chance.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, a few songs put a smile on my face with also the occasional laugh. I imagine this is something you could listen while playing D&D or wandering in a field in the buff on your favorite psychedelics. Song highlights: The Minotaur’s Song A Very Cellular Song-it has a kazoo solo Mercy I Cry City …maybe I should go watch The Lord of the Rings and drink some mead

I can’t tell if this band has an incredible sense of humor, or if they’re a group of truly ridiculous people who take themselves very seriously. In any case, this album was a wild ride. The lyrics are surrealist dream-poetry, backed by Ren Faire music plus Eastern instruments. But… it all works? What it’s aiming to do, it does. And it does it well. I can see why this isn’t most people’s cup of tea, but it’s interesting, it’s funny, and it’s pleasant to listen to.

One thing I can say is that I was never bored. I don't know if I "loved" any of the tracks particularly. But they are all solid. Each presents strange streams of consciousness, borrowing from Scottish folk (which I love) and many ""world"" sounds that they pick almost at random, several times each track. They fit far better than they should, and I can hear strains of music I do respect (like Led Zep), or more to the point, that I do like (such as Chumbawamba's Shhh and Un albums) in this. Better than I expected, but not necessarily anything brilliant or essential. Compare this to thusfar my only prog rating on this challenge in Yes' Fragile, and I do prefer this. While nothing on here is ANYWHERE NEAR as good as Roundabout, the whole package is more consistent

I have a friend who's a Democratic politician in Utah as well as a diehard Buffalo Bills fan, which sort of tells you everything you need to know about him. He said to me once: "if it weren't for irrational optimism, we'd all still be living in caves." I thought about that while listening to this, because I certainly can't fault Robin Williamson and his band for trying to do something legitimately interesting and new (by which I mean, to some degree, interesting and actually quite old). And that's true despite the fact that they utterly lack the skills to pull off more than about half of it. Williamson isn't a good singer, and he's not a good *bad* singer either; he's just pitchy and flat for the most part - which I suppose fits the Ren Faire strangeness of the album but that doesn't mean I like it. Likewise with the attempts at using the sitar, which are hit and miss (although "There Is a Green Crown" is legitimately great). Ultimately there are large swaths of this album flat-out don't work for me on any level, ambitious or not; "A Very Cellular Song" is actually about six different songs, maybe one of which is decent. And the stentorian lyrics are frequently utterly lacking in any subtlety or poetry. Thankfully in the streaming era you can just keep the stuff worth keeping and ditch the rest.

Fuck you

ever since the toonerville trolley incident, seeing "psychedelic" anywhere in an album's genres immediately gets my hackles up. thankfully it's been entirely unwarranted. all the psych rock albums we've rolled since have been at least listenable, even if they've mostly been woefully mid. ...until now. straight up, what the fuck is this album?? dread set in within 10 seconds of hitting play on the opening track and within minutes i'm being beaten round the ears with a combination of totally flat mixing and dogshit recording quality that is physically painful to listen to, and that's before i even get into the music itself being a bunch of scottish folks fucking around with a sitar they found. and god does the sitar feel razor sharp in my ears! if i'd had headphones on this album could've posed a genuine threat to my hearing. my new piercings flaring up may have saved me from a terrible fate today. good lord. i really don't think i have it in me to go back in for a second listen. even for previous 1 star ratings i've handed out, i've at least skimmed thru the tracks a little to make sure i'm not just on some bullshit, that it really is that bad. but this one genuinely fucking hurts to hear. maybe there's another version out there somewhere that's been hammered into a new, listenable form, and maybe if i ever come across it i'll give it another shot. but it's just as likely that the sight of this garden gnome catalogue lookin ass album cover will just make me flinch and avoid further contact. you really don't need to listen to this album before you die. if anything, your life would be better for avoiding it. what the fuck man.....

holy shit guys, no

not my type of album. didn't like the vocals

Qué cosa más rara, criatura... Y mira que me gusta la psicodelia

very autumn very musky very quirky

I would normally like Scottish folk music but this was terrible. Too much acid?

The 1960s were really a trip…literally! So many drugs. Really allowed for experimentation, but also this godawful nonsense to pass as innovation. Psychedelic folk may be worse than regular folk. 1⭐️

As músicas são meio parecidas e tem hora que irrita um pouco, mas é uma sonoridade curiosa

Just put more Fairport Convention records on this list if you’re going to put this on.

Mostly annoying

It's a great album. The psychedelic folk sound of this album sounds great! It's amazing how you can include so much sitar in the album! Truly amazing!

I don't recognize this artist, and don't recognize any of these tracks by title. So I'm going into this blind. Okay, let's talk about band names for a moment. This band calls themselves "The Incredible String Band." They're not a string band. And certainly not "incredible," at least not in the figurative sense of them being "amazing." But maybe they mean "incredible" in the more literal sense of them _not_ being a credible string band. If that's the case, then my review of this album is that it's an incredible album. The musicianship and vocal work: incredible. Songwriting: incredible. I'm even willing to infer that the titular Hangman's Daughter's Beauty is also likely incredible.

Certainly interesting, some cool instrumentation and use of microtonality/out of tune singing. Not amazing but a cool listening experience. I liked the use of folk melodies mixed with Eastern instruments, it was a cool blend

I see why it’s clever. I don’t see why I should like it.

The hippy movement was one of the most violent and contemptible cultural phenomena inflicted on humanity. Listening to this felt like being drawn and quartered by the Haight-Ashbury acid freaks. It’s made all the worse by being from the UK. This is an album that only could have been produced in the rancid, malicious corpse of an empire that murdered countless people on every continent. I’m convinced it is a psychological weapon designed by MI5 to punish all the uppity former colonies that thought they deserved independence.

It’s like the acid-dipped whimsy of Syd Barrett without the sense of pop songcraft to rein it in and give it structure. But I like the instrumentation, the various eastern influences and the unabashed freak-flag vibe.

A lot going on here. But now I understand the origin story for Elephant 6/ Neutral Milk Hotel.

Is this a put on?

10 songs 50 min, lets see how this is is that a sitar? yeah this is gonna be interesting. interesting timing changes, very psychadelic boy scout summer camp campfire song core very silly song oh my... 13 minutes..? oh ok this is a bunch of songs put together. wow this album is extremely experimental, especially for its time. its a bit much for me tbh. most of these songs dont interest me but the ending is kinda good reminds me bob dylan, not sure if that was on purpose but he has a less annoying voice experimental in a not annoying way, very unique instrumentation i like it this album certainly tackles a wide multitude of sounds, and not all of them hit but it keeps things interesting at least sitar is back, this song seems to take up a lot of inspiration from some south asian music i dont really know how to describe my thoughts on this i really like the sitar infused into this song, and his singing sounds really nice. good outro this was probably the most legitamately experimental (meaning not just noise for the sake of it) album ive ever listened to, so i gotta give it credit for that. unfortunately, much of it didnt stick for me. although there were some moments that actually left me pretty impressed. but because of the inconsistancy, i have to give it a 6

#238 - This is one of those albums where there is a sheer disconnect for what this album is rated as versus what is rated by the community. I get it too. This does not appeal to hardly anyone these days. Me included. I had to read more about it, just to give it another shot. I appreciate it a little more in context. I just cannot think of any scenario in my life where I might put this one casually. Maybe if I was doing a fairy tale/fantasy/ren faire themed party, this might fit in. That said, if you go in looking for the psychedelic elements, there are plenty there, and there are lot of genres that get incorporated which is cool in that regard. That said this is a hard one, unless you are into any of those elements. It kinda feels like a little Brian Wilson-y at points specifically Pet Sounds/SMiLE era. Biggest Hit - A Very Cellular Song Biggest Miss - Swift As The Wind Hidden Gem - Koeeoaddi There

3/10

Sounds like an annoying dude at a campfire. I'd rather go to bed. As the album continued I hated it more and more. 1/5

Go fuck yourself Dimery.

ruim pra caralho filho puta merda

até que usa vários instrumentos interessantes, mas num dá pra salvar nao. sabia que ia ser ruim, mas conseguiu me surpreender: é péssimo!

love it