#2638 The Electric Prunes - Underground

I went through a phase where I listened to the one great album by every great band, like some halfhearted James Murphy disciple.

Now I circle around to their unloved albums, like a full-fledged snob.

But this unheralded later album by a go-nowhere 60's band is good, I swear!

There's real energy here, a real leg-sweep of psychadelia, you can feel the grasp and the ambition, and it mostly works if you let it. You can feel that stretch, trying to find some next level beyond the initial thrill of psychedelia, all that Byrdsian swoon and romp - yer acid tells you what isn't and you take a swing at what is, and you come up with a handful of sand, but what an act of grasping!

3.5/5