THE MIND OF A BROTHER

Perhaps The Spacious Mind's best album (their debut Cosmic Minds at Play is also fantastic), Mind of a Brother is a psychedelic masterpiece. It is much different from the classic psych rock that you may expect, and draws from stoner rock and krautrock as much as anything. The closest psych prog album I can think of is Nektar's "A Tab in the Ocean" in the use of organ and heavy mood, but it is much more chaotic. All psych elements are in extreme excess, especially the "fuzz guitar" in the great solos and riffs.

Each track is over 10 minutes long and a mind-altering trip of its own. If I had to pick my three favorites, they would be "The Prophet Am I", "Interplanetarian Love Machine, Pt. III - The Final Solution", and "The Closer You Get to the Sun", but none of them really feel superior to the others from an objective standpoint. Simply put, if you love psychedelic music, and want to hear it taken to it's limits then hunt this album down. A masterpiece of psychedelic and progressive music.