Oar

This is a deeply weird album. I usually listen and then check the Wikipedia page, but in this case something made me look a couple of tracks in and the weirdness made sense. The usual sequence of events is to record a psychedelic folk rock album and then have a drug induced breakdown. Skip Spence attacked his former band mates with a fire axe after suffering severe delusions, spent six months in a secure institution and then recorded this when he got out.

This is a bit off-putting to say the least. This album is full of psychedelia and ideas, a bit too much over the place (I didn't expect to hear rain and someone nailing something?), and the voice is a bit too dull (or the guy was maybe too high). It might actually require several listenings to really make my mind, but I'm not intrigued enough to do so.