Jacks - Vacant World (1968)

Jacks played depressi-psych years before it was cool. Vacant World is their first album. The songs are all folky and poppy with depressive/psych undercurrents there to keep the listener on edge and feeling bad over the course of the album. It never gives the listener a reason to be on edge because it doesn't explode at any point, and its psychedelia is more of an outcome in the listener than an explicit stylistic decision. Although its undercurrents remain undercurrents, Vacant World will depress you and it will make you dizzy, entirely because of these undercurrents. Undercurrents.

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Lucio Battisti - Anima latina (1974)

Anima latina focusses on a return to basics simplicity in its experimentation, and a drifting liteness in its life-affirming grandiosity. It's so incredibly beautiful and simple that the listener often cuts it up into pieces and complicates it with presumed influences (Talk Talk, AnCo, The Flaming Lips) and dumbass categories (art pop, progressive pop, psych pop, and so on), maybe struggling to enjoy it in all of its self-contained joy and weightlessness. But that's what it wants to be, and that's all it is as well: simple self-contained joy and weightlessness

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Broadcast - The Noise Made By People (2000)

Fulfills every promise made by indie poppers more interested in the dusty collector vibes of 60s film soundtracks, lounge, and krautrock, than I dunno, revising The Beatles again or Pavement again, and they seem to do it best. It's little things, I think, like the abrasive bursts in Long Was the Year or eerie closing 30 seconds of Echo's Answer

B+

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