Victory: The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Sweetness and lord! Victory for everyone. Today I stumbled across this awesome little vignet straight from 1968. To let you in on a secret: I have a thing for pysch rock made as close to 1967 as possible. That period was powerful because rock had finally entered into a solid period of 'albums' (rather than 'singles') allowing artists to create solid pieces of work that stood on the quality of multiple tracks rather than powering through a solitary 3 minutes piece... It was a great time with major bands releasing some of their most important albums: the Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, the Doors, the Who, Dylan, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Love, James Brown, the Kinks, Jefferson Airplane etc. Songs began to embrace the studio, leaning on new tricks such as 'fading', 'stereo effects' and 'double tracking; etc... so today I found myself a new treasure to add to the collection: The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle.

Pristine British invasion era pop. Lots of harmonies, actually the entire thing is harmonies and mellotron. Wistful poetry spiked with off beat studio effects and backing vocals. Loving it.