VA - Mellow Psych, A Soft Focus on the Psychedelic Drift (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

MELLOW PSYCH

VA - Mellow Psych, A Soft Focus on the Psychedelic Drift (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

Mellow Psych lives in that gentle space where the psychedelic impulse turns inward. Instead of fuzzed‑out guitars or kaleidoscopic overload, this set leans toward the softer end of the spectrum, drifting harmonies, warm textures, and a kind of introspective glow that sits just outside the everyday. Across these 4-CDs, private‑press gems sit comfortably beside sunshine‑psych deep cuts, all sharing lightly lysergic colours, melodic ease, and a sense of emotional weightlessness. These aren’t tracks for the dancefloor or the freak‑out, they’re for the quiet hours, when the world softens at the edges and everything feels a little out of phase.

You’ll hear the hallmarks of the style throughout: chiming guitars, hushed vocals, and arrangements that favour space over spectacle. Many of the rarities come from regional 45s and micro‑label LPs, young bands chasing the psychedelic moment with limited means but surprising sincerity. That’s part of the magic. The production may be modest, yet the ideas are vivid. Cuts like “The Phycle,” “Crystalize Your Mind,” and the more fragile folk‑psych moments carry that handmade quality collectors love, small‑run records capturing big, dreamy ambitions.

The first two discs trace the classic era, where melodic psychedelia and sunshine pop overlap in bright, buoyant ways. The third disc turns inward, drifting into pastoral, reflective, and occasionally haunted territory. The final disc widens the frame, showing how the mellow psychedelic impulse continued to evolve long after the sixties, still glowing, still drifting, still inviting.

What ties everything together is the emotional clarity. These tracks aren’t here to overwhelm; they’re here to invite you in. A soft‑focus journey through the quieter corners of psychedelia, rewarding close listening and late‑night immersion. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Aerovons - World of You 2:30 1969

02 Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things 2:58 1967

03 Peppermint Rainbow - Will You Be Staying After Sunday 2:31 1968

04 Sunshine Company - Back on the Street Again 2:30 1967

05 Critters - Younger Girl 2:28 1966

06 Cyrkle - It Doesn't Matter Anymore 1:59 1967

07 Tokens - Portrait of My Love 2:21 1967

08 Bards - Never Too Much Love 2:55 1967

09 Montanas - You've Got to Be Loved 2:52 1967

10 Beau Brummels - Turn Around 3:05 1968

11 Bystanders - Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day 3:12 1967

12 Hobbits - Daffodil Days 3:16 1967

13 Appletree Theatre - Hightower Square 2:18 1967

14 Orange Bicycle - Hyacinth Threads 2:54 1967

15 Penny Arkade - Swim 2:43 1968

16 New Wave - Little Dreams 2:30 1967

17 Merry-Go-Round - Time Will Show The Wiser 2:29 1967

18 Roosters - One of These Days 2:46 1966

19 Smoke - October Country 2:45 1968

20 Youngbloods - Sunlight 3:08 1969

CD2

21 Association - Never My Love 3:08 1967

22 Ivy League - My World Fell Down 2:51 1966

23 Sagittarius - My World Fell Down [Single Version] 3:47 1967

24 Left Banke - Desiree 4:31 1967

25 Gentle Soul - Renaissance 3:13 1968

26 Collage - Driftin' 3:02 1967

27 Colours - Bad Day at Black Rock, Baby 3:25 1968

28 Free Design - Kites Are Fun 2:41 1967

29 Chamaeleon Church - Blueberry Pie 3:29 1968

30 Gordian Knot - Carraway Stream 2:48 1968

31 Montage - She's Alone 3:03 1969

32 Smoke - Waterfall 2:43 1968

33 Blue Things - High Life 2:42 1966

34 Critters - Mr. Dieingly Sad 2:47 1966

35 New Inspiration - Mr. Moody 2:33 1969

36 World Column - Lantern Gospel 3:30 1968

37 Peppermint Trolley Company - Company Trust 2:38 1968

38 Bachs - Minister to a Mind Diseased 3:16 1968

39 Hardtimes - Take A Look Around 2:38 1967

40 Lemon Pipers - Through With You 9:06 1968

CD3

41 Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind 2:15 1967

42 These Trails - These Trails 1:26 1973

43 Devendra Banhart - The Beatles 1:44 2005

44 Moon - Mothers and Fathers 2:04 1968

45 Living Children - Crystalize Your Mind 2:07 1968

46 Deep - When Rain is Black 2:11 1966

47 Common People - Soon There'll Be Thunder 2:22 1969

48 New Colony Six - Things I'd Like to Say 2:23 1968

49 Poppy Family - Shadows on My Wall 2:19 1970

50 Shambles - Clouds All Day 1:56 1996

51 Morning Dew - Crusader's Smile 2:47 1970

52 Dovers - What Am I Going to Do 2:38 1965

53 New Dawn - Dark Thoughts 3:01 1968

54 Freeborne - Land of Diana 3:18 1967

55 Growing Concern - Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled 2:50 1968

56 Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer 3:07 1978

57 Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms 4:33 1970

58 Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band - Flowers Never Cry 2:22 1968

59 Holy Mackerel - Scorpio Red 3:05 1968

60 Search Party - So Many Things Have Got Me Down 9:24 1969

CD4

61 Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer 4:40 2005

62 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper M ch  Dream Balloon 2:41 2015

63 Sunforest - Magician in the Mountain 4:14 1970

64 Sweetwater - In a Rainbow 3:19 1968

65 Gandalf - Hang on to a Dream 4:14 1969

66 Rising Storm - Frozen Laughter 3:09 1967

67 Jade Warrior - Yellow Eyes 2:56 1971

68 Fotheringay - The Pond and The Stream 3:19 1970

69 Donovan - House of Jansch 2:46 1967

70 Serpent Power - Endless Tunnel 13:14 1967

71 Third Estate - Look at Me 8:44 1976

72 Growing Concern - Hard Hard Year 4:27 1968

73 Thundertree - Summertime Children 4:14 1970

74 Beau Brummels - Magic-Hollow 2:51 1967

75 Hobbits - Strawberry Children 3:23 1968

76 Vogues - Humpty Dumpty 2:30 1966

77 Deep Six - Rising Sun (Mono Single Version) 2:30 1965

78 Peanut Butter Conspiracy - I'm Falling 2:41 1967

79 Yesterday's Obsession - The Phycle 3:08 1968

80 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense 5:50 1968

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