Gandalf

I mentioned this band in my post on Eden Ahbez (they cover Nature Boy), so I figured I probably shouldn't hold out on those poor souls who haven't been enlightened by this bliss. Easily falls into my top 10 American psych records. As much as I like Tim Hardin, Gandalf's covers of a few of his songs far improve on the originals. It's classic psych pop with all the 60s studio trickery, but the trickery is never at the expense of the song (as many great psych pop records have been ruined by). The cover should probably clue you in to what the sound is all about, but it's so much more.

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