An early "experimental rock" album, one of the first to play with song length and note length, hypnotic rhythms and droning tones to create music that melts time; many of the great, strange bands that have played with repetition, from Can to Boredoms*, surely owe a debt to this. It takes The Doors' extended organ-drenched solos and strips them of their songiness, creating jams that don't sound performed, but transmitted whole from beyond.
There's something slippery and unknowable here, decidedly listenable, but somehow not listen-to-able, as everything drifts by. Something strangely perfect and entrancing spun from bass, drums, organ, voice, and sound 4.5/5
* edit 2/4/13: also, all 3 are bands where your instinct might be to put a "the" before their names, but where there is no actual "the" in their names. Weird!
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