As with any ‘best of’ list, there a ton that gets left out. Even in this gargantuan list there are albums I feel should be represented. I hope this “complete list” of the best psychedelia records of 2017 jives with your sensibilities, and that there might be something in here that you haven’t heard, or given much of a chance, and that you might like. There are 52 albums here, and each one is brilliant.
As always, yours in psychedelia,
The New Elastic Infinite.
Turn on. Tune in. Freak Out!
Soft Power . In a Brown Study . Aavaa #1/ MF . Huuru Osasto Records
HIBUSHIBIRE . Freak Out Orgasm! . Trepenation Breakdown . Riot Season Records
Nuvem Leopardo . Quintessência . Nvit e os Jardins do Infinito Prazer . Aumega Project
Pansies . Cascade of Colors . Feels Like Yesterday . Ongakubaka Records
Lucille Furs . S/T . The Fawn of Teal Dear . The Minimal Beat Limited
The Myrrors . Hasta La Victoria . Tea House Music . Beyond Beyond is Beyond
Flowers Must Die . Kompost . After Gong . Rocket Recordings
Mountain Movers . S/T . I Could Really See Things . Trouble In Mind Records
Ecstatic Vision . Raw Rock Fury . Twinkling Eye Pt 3 . Relapse Records
Dire Wolves . Excursions to Cloudland . Celebration Day . Beyond Beyond is Beyond
Alice D. and the Wild Flowers . In the Center of the Room . Left is the Right Choise . S/R
Ash & Herb . Northern Lights . Cap & Stem . Flower Room
Chui Wan . The Landscape the Tropics Never Had . Lunar Sea . Maybe Mars / Pang Pang Project
Prana Crafter . MindStreamBlessing . At Agartha’s Gate . Eiderdown Records
Perhaps . V . Mood Stabilizer . Riot Season Records
RMFTM . Subversive III: De Spelende Mens . A Secret Howl In The Ambient Night . Fuzz Club
Henrik Rylander . Från En Obestämd Plats I Rummet . Organ 1 . Höga Nord Rekords
Dead Sea Apes . Sixth Side of the Pentagon . Lo Res . Sky Lantern / Cardinal Fuzz
Sula Bassana . Organ Accumulator . Lichtnündel . Sulatron
Sunwatchers* . Sun Worship . Noise Beers . Drones Against Drones Music
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. . Wandering The Outer Space . Golgotha 13 Chaise Électrique . buh records
Sunn Trio . S/T . Beneath the Sheltering Sun . Sky Lantern Records
Tonstartssbandht . Sorcerer . Breathe . Mexican Summer
The Plastic Crimewave Syndicate . Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom . Future To The Ancients . Eye Vybe Records / Cardinal Fuzz
Kungens Män . Dag & Natt . Morgonrodnad . adansoniarecords.de
Dhidalah . No Water . GRB . Guruguru Brain
Culto al Qondor . Templos . Amenecer en Tres Cruces . Necio Records
Klaus Morlock . Penumbra . Arrival . S/R
Headroom . Head in the Clouds . Flower of Light . Trouble In Mind
The Telescopes . Stone Tape . Dead Inside . Sly Vinyl
GABBI . Gabbi EP . Animal . #Nº (numeralnumero)/ cargocollective
20 Guilders . 2 . 焚曲 // Song Burning . Nod & Smile Records
Suzuki Junzo . Shizuka Na Heya De Ashioto Wa . Shizuka Na Heya De Ashioto Wa . Utech Records
ZONG . S/T . Cosmic Embryo . Cardinal Fuzz / Praying Mantis
Twinkranes . Spektrum Theatre Snakes . Spores . Finders Keepers
Snakes Don’t Belong in Alaska . Mountain Rituals . Mountain Void . Sky Lantern
Runa Gama . Cepa . Golem . S/R
Oulu Space Jam Collective . Harvest Sage . S/R
Moths & Locusts . Intro/Outro . Acid Cloud Part 2 . Cardinal Fuzz/Sony/RED
Killflavour . Forest Mirror . In, but Not of This World . Barhill Records
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 . Stone Garden . In a Coil . Guruguru Brain
In Zaire . Visions of the Age to Come . Headscape . S/R
Cosmos, Astrid and Me . Brewer Street . You Look Like an Apple . Grabbing Clouds
France . Live à Metamórfosi 2019 . Face A . Almost Musique
Electric Moon . Stardust Rituals . Stardust (The Picture) . Sulatron Records
Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek . Nem Kaldi . Nem Kaldi . Bongo Joe
Boogarins . Lá Vem a Morte . Lá Vem a Morte pt 3 . OAR
Blown Out . Superior Venus . Superior Venus . Riot Season Records
Bike . Em Busca da Viagem Eterna . A Montanha Sagrada .
Ancient Ocean . Titan’s Island . Rift Valleys . BBiB
Lamagaia . S/T . Paronama Vju . Sunrise Ocean Bender
Electric Orange . EOXXV . Under the Nun . Adansonia Records
GLOBAL PSYCHEDELIA 