As he lay on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley (famed author of Brave New World and The Doors Of Perception) asked his wife for a final 100 microgram dose of LSD. It was 11.30am, November 22nd, 1963. Within the hour, President John F. Kennedy was publicly slaughtered in downtown Dallas, Texas and the U.S. (and, indeed, the world) erupted into a swirling nightmare of War, further Assassinations and seismic Social Ruptures. Were the Shuddering and Lysergic decades that followed some kind of splinter from Huxley's hallucinating mind's eye, an alternate timeline of Tyranny and Tumult akin to the landscape of a Silicon-Age Hieronymus Bosch? For the very first time, soundtracked largely from Private-Press obscurities and Evangelist vanities, the Youthquake era of 1962-1979 is presented in an hallucinagenic brew of speech and song. Christian Psyche Rock and Psyche Folk acts foretell the 'Mark Of The Beast' and the Apocalypse. Cloistered Nuns mourn the fallen Regent. Hillbilly Seers chronicle churning revolution, Rockabilly Sirens chart despair and Hipster Prophets prosletisize for outsider Jesus Freaks. Desert Psyche loners howl of a sunburnt internal Armageddon, Forgotten Song-Poem Geniuses prophesize ill-omens and spiritual assault while firebrand Preachers warn of the Communist Menace, Drug-Fuelled Delirium, Bad Trips and Economic Enslavement. A kaleidoscopic feverdream of Faith, God, Threat and Social Fragmentation.

Tracklist:

Cloistered Nuns Chicago Monastery - Dallas Town
Dion - Abraham Martin and John
Brother John Rydgren - Hippie Version of the 23rd Psalm
Bobby B. Baker - It's Just About Time
W. Cleon Skousen - Instant Insanity Drugs (Excerpt)
The Gatemen - the Klan
Brother John Rydgren - the Noise
Jean Alford - the Great Society
Willard Cantelon - LSD: Battle for the Mind (Excerpt)
The Derby-Hatville - Scorched Sand
Debbie Studer - Be Gone Satan
Rave Ons - the Whole Worlds Shakin'
Evangelist Neal Frisby - the Future! (Excerpt)
Nancy Carol - Come Away Melinda
Darwin Kelton - the Blink of An Eye
Estus w. Pirkle - If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? (Excerpt)
A Still Small Voice - Mark of the Beast
Isabel Baker - This O'Le World's a Big Let Down
Anthony Newley - Lament for a Hero
Brother John Rydgren - the Lord Is My Shepherd
Children of the Lord - Follow Jesus
Aldous Huxley - LSD Experiment 23rd December 1962 (Excerpt)

UPC: 604670364549
Label: Iron Mountain Analog
Release Date: 4.17.26
Format: Vinyl

The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility

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