V/A - Drink Beer! Yell! Dance! (1961-66)

Best Garage comp I have heard in the last few months. Bunch of mid-western boy-man bands with severe inclinations to get rowdy! So easy to enjoy, so impossible to replicate.

Pisces - A Lovely Sight (1968)

Beautiful soft psych from "lost" Chicago-era group. Numero recently issued this on vinyl for the first time! Enjoy what is here, but do yourself, and them, a favor and go here and order the real, smelly wax. It is so tasty, especially when you realize the singer was but 17, and the last the band knows, she jumped town shortly after this recording, due to alleged involvement in some sort of check fraud scheme.

Jerry Solomon - Through the Woods (1973)

Another slab of pure id from Big Jerry. This release finds him getting a bit pastoral. If you enjoyed the more freewheelin' part of Past the 20th Century, you'll love this. This album actually takes The Marble Index by its stilted neck, and makes it look like the conceited work of a Teutonic pretender to the throne. Pain is not fame, beauty, a mellotron, and heroin addiction. This album is pain, joy, and a good share of life's genuine madness all blended together.