Well well well. A new Office Naps psychedelic pop mix. Do wonders ever cease? This is the sixth of these, and the first in six years, and it skews subtly towards the ’70s and a darker Vietnam-era energy while summoning all of the chiming, soaring, weird Aquarian vibes of previous psych-pop mixes.
Office Naps Late Summer 2016 Psychedelic Pop mix
Sun, The Dream (The Journeys of the Sun Sailors 7? 45 EP, Pyrasound)
Honey LTD., Silk ‘n Honey (7? 45, LHI)
Estelle Levitt, I Like the Way It Feels (7? 45, Music Factory)
Orange Box, Time Has Gone to Sleep (7? 45, Overlord)
Mozark Music Makers, Theme of the Corillions (7? 45, The Corillions)
Jupiters’ Children, This Is All I Ask (7? 45, Triple O)
Pyramid, Shadows (7? 45, Solomon)
National Bank of Sound, Me and My Friends (7? 45, Sea-West)
Plain Jane, Not the Same (Plain Jane, Hobbit)
The Pyramids, I Don’t Wanna Cry (7? 45, Archer)
Harlen Michael, Day Sleeper (7? 45, Era)
Neil Norman, With You My Love (7? 45, GNP Crescendo)
The Apocalypse, God is My Home (7? 45, Apocalypse)
Stone, Le Nenuphar (7? 45, Polydor, France)
Charley D. and Milo, Om Sweet Om (Charley D. and Milo, Epic)
Jan & Lorraine, Snow Roses (Gypsy People, ABC)
Puff, I Sure Need You (Puff, MGM)
Piero Umiliani, Pellegrinaggio Al Totem (Polinesia, Omicron, Italy)
John Paynter and Peter Aston (dirs.), Musique Concrete (excerpt) (Sound and Silence: Classroom Projects in Creative Music, Cambridge University Press, U.K.)
Persona, Água (Som, no label, Brazil)
Stu Phillips, Ranee Express (Follow Me, Uni)
Hollins and Starr, Krishna Day (Sidewalks Talking, Ovation)
Commune, Violets in Your Basket (7? 45, Flippin’)
Electric Frogs, Mona (7? 45, Storec, Germany)
Calcium, Elle Regarde Et Elle Rit (7? 45, Pathé , Canada)
Deuces Wild, Hey Little One (7? 45, Deuce)
Dennis Harte, Summer’s Over (7? 45, Roundtable)