Reverberation

The 13th Floor Elevators - Fire Engine - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators [1966]

The essential albums: “THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND of The 13Th Floor Elevators”

“… to create disorder. To suggest negatively. To open the doors to the unknown. The elevator arrives at the floor exactly one year later, in November 1966, and for the first time spits the word psychedelic in the faces of the masses.”

More than the word (the album comes out simultaneously with Psychedelic Lollipop, just to say), in my opinion, it’s really the sound… what it should say is psychedelic. A word abused like few others. I can’t define it, let alone… for me it’s not a genre but an aura that merges with other sounds, giving particular “effects” both to the sound itself and to the listener.

This is the ALBUM… like few others.
Garage-Beat-R&B and Psychedelia… Psychedelia and Melody perfectly blended. Not some guitar effect or a computer thrown around aimlessly for 5 minutes… that’s crap, not Psychedelia.

Rev - IlConte (64)