#1102 The United States of America - The United States of America

A wildly psychadelic album, swirling through traditional pop, dixieland romp, hard 60's rock, and monastic harmonies. That diversity is disorienting enough, but it's all whipped around with extensive tape manipulation and post-production: every song has countless parts, entering, exiting, swirling all over one another, adhering to no obvious song-structure, sounding in retrospect like an obvious inspiration point for Olivia Tremor Control / Circulatory System, and then the entire thing folds back on itself during the final track mashup of everything that came before. Overbusy and bewilderingly unfocused, it's hard to say what's even happened when the album's over, but it was a trip 3.5/5