trippy

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Pink Floyd

Syd Barrett's debut masterpiece is pure lysergic imagination, the blueprint for all trippy rock that followed.

Strange Days

The Doors

Jim Morrison's surrealist poetry over hypnotic, swirling arrangements makes this one of rock's most genuinely unsettling and otherworldly records.

Innerspeaker

Tame Impala

Kevin Parker's debut is a lysergic guitar odyssey drenched in reverb and hazy, mind-bending production.

Tago Mago

Can

A sprawling double album of hypnotic grooves and avant-garde experimentation that feels like a journey into the subconscious.

Music Has the Right to Children

Boards of Canada

Warped samples, dusty textures, and eerie melodies create a deeply hallucinatory listening experience unlike anything else.

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

The defining sound of the San Francisco psychedelic scene, anchored by Grace Slick's commanding voice and mind-expanding arrangements.

The Perfect Prescription

Spacemen 3

A relentless, hypnotic drone-rock record built for altered states, deeply influential on all shoegaze and psychedelia that followed.