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Classic ! Fourth or 4 is the group's first all-instrumental album and features a mix of Free Jazz, straight-ahead Jazz, and gong-like psychedelia. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt.

Limited to 24.150 copies. The Gold Experience was the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol, and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word “slave” written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” and “Gold” and the defiant single “Eye Hate U,” and the album earned widespread critical acclaim.The Record Store Day 2022 re-release of The Gold Experience is an homage to the rare US-only promo version of the album released in 1995. The two-LP set is pressed onto translucent gold vinyl with a bonus suite of “Eye Hate U” remixes on Side D.

Gustav Ejstes has always been on his way to someplace else. The Swedish musician has been making records as Dungen for two decades now, and while he’s lauded as one of the sharpest and most adventurous musicians in psychedelic music since 2004’s breakthrough Ta det lungt, for Ejstes psych has always been only a starting point. Or maybe it’s something more like an ethos—psych with its promise of exploration, the way it prioritizes seeking out new sounds, of leaving the old self behind, of setting into the ether to see what else might be out there.En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog (One is Too Much and a Thousand is Never Enough) is the first Dungen record since 2016’s Häxan and the first proper Dungen studio album since Allas Sak was released in 2015. If we’re thinking of psych-rock as a genre, with its readymade tropes—fuzz guitars, shimmering harmonies, pastoral textures—it’s possibly the least psychedelic record Ejstes has ever made. But if psych is really about transcending what’s come before in favor of new ways of seeing and hearing, then the opposite is true.And that means En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog goes further out than any Dungen record before it. There are classic psych rave-ups, of course, and the kind of brilliant vocal harmonies Ejstes has long made his trademark. There are soft, shuffling grooves that transform into wide-eyed cosmic revelations. There are intimate songs guided by Ejstes and his piano, which he plays so gently it sounds like he’s trying not to wake someone in the next room.

'Headsoup' Is A New Compilation That Deepens The Legend Of Mysterious Swedish Psych Collective Goat Even Further. Collecting Rarities From Across Band's Celebrated Career, Including Standalone Singles, B-Sides, Digital Edits And Two Enormous Brand New Tracks, It's A Globetrotting Acid Trip Of A Record That's Even Bigger In Its Scope Than Their Acclaimed Studio Lps.From The Incendiary Heavy Psych Of Their Earliest Work, Like Debut B-Side 'The Sun And Moon', To The Serene 'Requiem'-Era Alternate Take 'Union Of Mind And Soul', To The Simmering Menace Of Their Latest Material, It's A Record As Multifaceted As Goat Themselves, Packed With Detours In Every Conceivable Direction.Taking In Jazz-Flute Solos, Pounding Afrobeat Rhythms, Ferocious Desert Blues, Drifting Ethio-Jazz, This Is, As The Name Of Goat's First Album Made Clear, 'World Music' In Its Most Complete Form, A Sound Unrestrained By Genre Boundaries. Yet The Band Are Anything But Lazy Appropriators. They Approach Their Forebears With Upmost Reverence, Articulating A Celebratory Cultural Cross-Pollination. And What About These Two New Tracks? 'Fill My Mouth' Is A Scuzzy Psychedelic Funk Knockout, The Sleaziest Thing The Band Have Ever Recorded. 'Queen Of The Underground', Meanwhile, Is Truly Herculean, A Swaggering Psychedelic Powerhouse Of The Very Highest Order.Sometimes Dark And Heavy, At Others Joyous And Beautiful, Like Goat Themselves 'Headsoup' Is Mysterious, And Constantly Shapeshifting, Difficult To Properly Pin Down But Constantly Enthralling. Almost A Decade Since They First Emerged From The Depths Of Scandinavia, There Is Still No Other Band On Earth That Sounds Quite Like Them. Comes In Cyan Blue Vinyl With 7"Single!

Short-lived all-female group Spoilsports were active from 1980 and operated in a world where jazz-rock, modern soul and post-punk all cross-pollinated with each other. One of their only early DIY releases now gets reissued by Freestyle Records and finds the members - who were all active in London's feminist and improvised music scenes - lay down a couple of political yet playful numbers. With Carole Nelson on keys, Angele Veltmeijer on saxophone, Sheelagh Way on drums, Lesley Shone on bass, Isabel on congas and Laka Koq providing vocals Spoilsports cooked up a real storm here.

Jakob Dylan and co. return with highway ballads and Saturday afternoon rockers, sounding like the classic rock band they’ve always ached to be. (pitchfork)