Easily my favorite record from this under-appreciated branch of the Elephant 6 collective. There's a bit of all types of psychedelia -- Eastern-influenced musical mantras ("Wings of Light"), acoustic pop ("The Winter Is Coming", "The Sun Is Forever"), heavy quasi-doom ("The Albatross"), dark alt rock ("The Skeleton"), fuzzed-out, homespun bliss ("People Underneath"), and whatever one might call the sweeping, urgent album opener, "Embrace the Crimson Tide" -- so if you don't like the sound of one track, you can be sure that the next one will be completely different.
Track listing:
1. Embrace the Crimson Tide
2. Skeleton
3. The Great Society
4. The Winter Is Coming
5. Wings of Light
6. The Sun Is Forever
7. People Underneath
8. Green Sea Days
9. The Naughty Villain
10. Leopard's Teeth
11. Birds in the Backyard
12. 10,000 Telescopes
13. The Albatross
There's no path for you to follow
Drift your way right through tomorrow
There's no need to run
No need to hide
I was 14 when I first heard Magical Mystery Tour on acid and it scared the the fuck out of me. the psychedelia on that record like the psychedelia of the 13th floor Elevators's Psychedelic Sounds and Easter Everywhere they just filled in some cracks and pressed some feel good buttons...Some of this Elf Power is pretty cool..
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