The Incredible String Band

Scottish psychedelic folk group formed by Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in the mid-1960s, noted for multi-instrumental arrangements and world-music influences.

Core members included Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. Key albums frequently cited as masterpieces are The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (1967) and The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968). Joe Boyd produced some of their early records. Reviews and contemporary sources record that the group's initial run ended around 1974 and that Mike Heron later became involved with Scientology.

The Incredible String Band are a Scottish psychedelic-folk group led by Mike Heron and Robin Williamson. Reviews praise their inventive multi-instrumentalism, exotic/world influences and two landmark 1967–1968 albums. Later records show stylistic shifts and the group's dissolution around 1974.

For:Fans of 1960s psychedelic folk, experimental acoustic music and world-influenced folk.