Podcast 2022.09 Five Eyes
This episode focuses on recent Garage rock and psychedelic music from the US and Canada. I’ve recently done a show on psychedelia in the UK and another show focusing on Australia and New Zealand. So with this episode I’ve covered all of the founding member states of the Five Eyes alliance.
I’m not exactly sure of when I became aware of the Five Eyes but it just reinforced this fear I’ve had that we’re spiraling into an Orwellian future. I read 1984 many years ago, but I’ve started to wonder if the Five Eyes alliance is Oceania–and that we’ve always been at war with Eastasia. 1984 was certainly dystopian with a steady flow of disinformation, but even so I don’t think even Orwell imagined how people would be such willing participants in the spread of disinformation.
The music in this episode is divided roughly evenly between the US and Canada. This episode is longer than usual because I got sidetracked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That got me to put together an overdue episode devoted to Psychedelic Source Records. I thought they hit exactly the right tone with Mantras For Peace. Then I put together an episode of garage/psych and stoner bands from Ukraine. All the while I kept adding tracks to the playlist for this episode. Rather than break it up I thought I’d go with the episode I had originally sketched out with a set devoted to music from the US and a set of Canadian music. The styles run the range from garage punk to minimalist/ambient psychedelia.

00:39 The Living Sky – Cylinder
04:31 Slow Dawn – See-Through
07:40 Night Collectors – One Thousand Years
14:39 Shimmer Bed – Signs
16:49 Supplemental Pills – Run On
23:50 Myrrs – When You’re Here
28:28 thefamilystoned – Deaf Church Choir
33:05 Skloss – Upper Attic
37:20 Fantastic Purple Spots – Blasting Into The Sun
40:40 Magic Shoppe – I Feel High
43:55 Daemones – Refractor
49:39 Fuguers Cove – Gust
52:12 Babe Ruthless – Dog Days
53:33 Lightning – Vallejo
57:07 Deadlights – Paralyzed
1:00:20 Groop – Belly II
1:04:13 Shimmer Bed – Fine
1:10:10 John Denver Airport Conspiracy – The Big Classic
1:13:32 Omissam – Hide
1:16:15 Cosmic Drifter – Chasing Shadows
1:20:57 The Gateless Gate – Helcaraxë One
1:31:02 Lammping – Everlasting Moor
1:34:35 Blume – It’s You
1:44:30 Spheroid – Transparent Radiation