#1071 The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers

A psychedelic album with the corners of the Byrds' folky past and country future poking through, full of honkytonk touches, lush vocal harmonies, and early synth flourishes. It's the kind of barely-there, overlayered album that I'd normally blow off, but it all works so damned well, making just the right number of stylistic swerves and tempo transitions, melting into and making animate; even the hitchy time signatures feel like part of the fabric. This is a completely composed forehead-of-god album from a band that I'm increasingly realizing I've been criminally underrating 4.5/5