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Best of 2008 (psych)

  1. Abe Vigoda: Skeleton

    1. Abe Vigoda: Skeleton

    This was a great year for psych, and this knockout LP from Abe Vigoda was one of the genre’s finest offerings. The 14 songs on Skeleton stop and start at a moment’s notice, driven by a bass...read more

  2. Atlas Sound: Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

    2. Atlas Sound: Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

    Yes, this has been a good year for Bradford Cox, the frontman for Deerhunter and their heavy Krautrock-meets-shoegaze webs of sound. Let the Blind… is the official first offering from Atlas S...read more

  3. The Black Angels: Directions to See a Ghost

    3. The Black Angels: Directions to See a Ghost

    If the Black Angels’ full-length debut, Passover, sounded like the harbinger of an imminent apocalypse to you, then consider this your welcome music to hell. Directions to See a Ghost, the Te...read more

  4. Cloudland Canyon: Lie In Light

    4. Cloudland Canyon: Lie In Light

    7 minutes into Cloudland Canyon’s remarkable new record Lie In Light you might be pretty sure you’re listening to the first Neu record. The album’s opener “Krautwerk” ...read more

  5. Crystal Antlers: EP

    5. Crystal Antlers: EP

    Yet another “Crystal” band (Crystal Stilts and Crystal Castles are the others), these dudes from Long Beach, California, have crafted a neat infusion of psych, prog and garage in puttin...read more

  6. Dead Meadow: Old Growth

    6. Dead Meadow: Old Growth

    Dead Meadow’s latest is already touted as the album closest to an instant classic that we’ll get this year. Ten years in the making, Old Growth is THE album that both fans and critics o...read more

  7. Eden Express: Que Amors Que

    7. Eden Express: Que Amors Que

    From the always reliable Holy Mountain label comes this terrific record from Eden Express, a supergroup of sorts featring Kip Uhlhorn (Cloudland Canyon), Kelly Uhlhorn and John David Lovelace. Plen...read more

  8. Es: Sateenkaarisuudelma

    8. Es: Sateenkaarisuudelma

    Featuring rushing piano cadences and stabs, the sounds of burbling streams and static, softly chanting vocals, spectral, psychedelic ambience, dark koan/drones and endlessly looped guitar and elect...read more

  9. Indian Jewelry: Free Gold!

    9. Indian Jewelry: Free Gold!

    Too many bands, eager to home in on a profitable genre, undeservedly adopt the psychedelic label, but Indian Jewelry is the real deal. Free Gold! throbs, drones and fuzzes, but the band is way too ...read more

  10. Lau Nau: Nukkuu

    10. Lau Nau: Nukkuu

    Is there any end to the charming psych folk coming out of Scandanavia these days? Finland alone is a hotbed for this kind of enchanting music, with its beguiling vocals and lush atmospherics. No on...read more

  11. Nisennenmondai: Nenji/Tori

    11. Nisennenmondai: Nenji/Tori

    What’s this? Song titles like “This Heat,” “Sonic Youth” and “Pop Group”? Nisennenmondai is an instrumental Japanese-girl trio from Tokyo and thunders like...read more

  12. Oneida: Preteen Weaponry

    12. Oneida: Preteen Weaponry

    Oneida has added more variety to its sound in recent years but here pares back to basics. That said, it’s still a bit of a change from previous albums as this is the closest they have yet got...read more

  13. Paavoharju: Laulu Laakson Kukista

    13. Paavoharju: Laulu Laakson Kukista

    This is the highly anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland’s Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers—Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of a...read more

  14. The Ruby Suns: Sea Lion

    14. The Ruby Suns: Sea Lion

    Sub Pop churns out so many great hits every year, some of their artists fall between the cracks. Take the Ruby Suns, the work of New Zealand-by-way-of-L.A. pop maestro Ryan McPhun, whose Sea Lion i...read more

  15. Valet: Naked Acid

    15. Valet: Naked Acid

    In a year of many fine psych albums, this one was near the top. Valet is the solo vehicle of Honey Owens, sometimes member of Jackie O Motherfucker, Atlas Sound and Nudge, and Naked Acid is her sec...read more

  16. White Hills: A Little Bliss Forever

    16. White Hills: A Little Bliss Forever

    A terrific LP of acid-drenched, spacey rock jams from local band White Hills, now featuring Kid Millions of the great Oneida. A Little Bliss Forever, a limited vinyl-only release we’re lucky ...read more

  17. Yellow Swans: Deterioration

    17. Yellow Swans: Deterioration

    So Yellow Swans have allegedly called it quits. A pity. No one can say that they haven’t given fans plenty to feast on, however: With some 40 albums to their credit, Yellow Swans are just abo...read more

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