The Psychic Paramount‘s II will stream HERE in its entirety until its release on Feb. 22, courtesy of NPR.

“The mid-’00s was a boon to instrumentally driven and often heavily psychedelic rock records: Comets on Fire’s Blue Cathedral, Battles’ first three EPs and the ever-enduring legacy and ridiculously long discography of the Japanese psych heroes in Acid Mothers Temple, to name just a few. But one record that often went unnoticed but remains clutched in the hands and ears of longhaired Deadheads (admitted Deadhead-ism TBD) is The Psychic Paramount’s Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural. The album is an amalgamation of all the bands above, but not really. While plenty heavy and technically adept at its instruments, the instrumental trio went about the build and pay-off like a three-headed shaman. Why we’ve had to wait six years for a follow-up is another story, but the long wait is worth it for the simply named II, a cannonball of a record shot off a cliff in high-def” –Lars Gotrich/NPR.

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