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Best of 2011 Psych Rock Redefined: The Reissues Of 2011
December 15, 2011
The subtitle for this album includes the hallmark “psychedelic rock” phrase — and, while it’s misleading, I don’t fault Light In The Attic Records for attempting to define the music of this South Korean legend. Like many players in Seoul’s late-’60s and early-’70s scene, Shin was a soul boy, and much of his music contains debris from the soul pantheon. This wasn’t uncommon in the psychedelic rock idiom, of course, but a song like “Beautiful Rivers and Mountains” is about as surprising a psych jam session as I’ve encountered. It’s a highlight of an album full of dirge-like blues-funk, sorrowful ballads, surf-rock and flower-power pop.
