Kingdom of Heaven

13th Floor Elevators - Tried To Hide

The Essential Albums: “THE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND of The 13Th Floor Elevators”

“…it's a paranoid and essentially perverse record... the music of the Elevators is breathless, claustrophobic, and oppressive. As if the doors of that elevator never actually opened. Suffocating like a wadding of cotton soaked in paraffin stuffed down the throat. Nobody smiles in the corridors of the thirteenth floor but it's in the belly of this Austin skyscraper that the elevator runs, carrying the most insane and delirious psychedelic music of the sixties to new heights."

Oh I, Rev, I also find it amusing; it's more exhilarating than oppressive... these are personal sensations, savansadir.

More than the word (the album is released simultaneously with Psychedelic Lollipop for instance), for me, it's really the sound... what should be called 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 blends with other sounds, giving particular "effects" both to the sound 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 or computer effect thrown together haphazardly for 5 minutes... that's crap, not Psychedelia.

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