Genre: Psychedelic Rock

01 Pussy Head Man from Outer Space
02 Crystal Rainbow Pyramid
03 Electric Psilocybin Flashback

What...the...Fuck?

If I seriously had my way, that would be this entire review. It would probably be a fantastic selling point at that. Unfortunately, guidelines do not permit me to write a review that short so I will indeed have to go into detail. This is indeed my first adventure through the stars with Japan's own Acid Mother's Temple, and for me it was one strange trip. Sitting here, staring at my screen with my jaw on the floor for over an hour intently listening to the strange atmospheres and freak out blasting out of my sound system. This is another "space rock" album but this is much more sophisticated and sincere, lacking the straight psychadelia of most acts in this form. (See: Space Mirrors).

This album is incredibly focused, if that makes much sense to you. While it (I believe) is more or less a jam session made into a structured trio of tunes, there is a great amount of professionalism shown here. It's not just straight trips and spacey sounds, as most of the music itself is very well written. Or, in the case, probably improvised. I always seem to find myself confused and in awe in the presence of this style of music. I always end up turning the lights off and kicking back with no light but that from my computer screen and just drifting. I tend to allow the music to bring me to another place. If it fails to do so then I don't believe it did its job. I shouldn't have to be on drugs to have a psychadelic album take me somewhere. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars did. It actually took me on quite a journey through the stars and back into my own body.

Psychadelic is more often than not pretty incredible to me. I've never been the type that could just up and write a song just because. Granted a great deal of the music found within is repeated to death and then slightly changed in order to progress the song, it is still improvisation on a great length that shows much talent. All one needs to remember is scales but even that on this length isn't exactly easy. So I've got pretty mixed feelings on Important records. The stuff they release isn't really my daily fancy...I'm not much of a psychadelic listener unless its progressive rock/metal. But their releases always seem to impress me on new levels. This is one to support for all of you spacey stoners out there.