Psychotropia

Psychotropia Artist: Nick Nicely
Label: Castle Music UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5050159195220
ASIN: B0002ADXTS


Release Date: 2004-07-22

Psychotropia


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Tracks:

  1. Hilly Fields (1982)
  2. Treeline
  3. 49 Cigars
  4. Beverly
  5. On the Beach (The Ladder Descends)
  6. Psychotropia
  7. Hundred Years Later
  8. Heaven's Gate
  9. Remember
  10. Elegant Daze
  11. D.C.T. Dreams
  12. Other Side
  13. On the Coast 2
  14. Everyone Knows
  15. 1923
  16. 6B Obergine
  17. On the Coast
  18. Doors of Perception

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Album Description

Nick Nicely's first ever collection,with lost outtakes and never before released tracks. Also includes his critically acclaimed song `Hilly Fields'. Castle Music. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sowing The Seeds Of Psych.......2005-11-16

A real hidden gem for British psych/freakbeat fans has been unearthed and polished up for some long overdue appreciation. Technically not a cohesive "album", per se, so much as an "anthology" of an artist who never really actively pursued a music career. It is important to understand the significance of this collection's breath-taking opening track "Hilly Fields (1892)". This was the "hit" from an EP released back circa '81-'82 (Nicely's only ever "official" release). While it didn't set the world on fire, "Hilly Fields" enjoyed some college radio exposure (that's where I remember hearing it and becoming absolutely entranced). Most importantly, it reached the impressionable ears of one Mr. Andy Partridge, who, as the story goes, based on this one epic song, was inspired to create XTC's alter ego pseudo-psychedelic band The Dukes Of Stratosphear. What's the point of my rambling story? "Hilly Fields" could well be pin-pointed as "Patient Zero" of the whole psych-revival movement, although its creator has never been given due credit. Now you can hear all the cuts from that original EP plus a smattering of previously unreleased material that Nicely has produced over the ensuing 20-odd years or so. The most surprising thing is that there actually IS a certain coherence and consistence of quality to this collection, and it could pass as a thematic "album". While Revolver-Sgt. Pepper's era Beatles are the most obvious touchstone, Nicely demonstrates his own unique sensibility throughout. If you enjoy the aforementioned Dukes, or the likes of Martin Newell or Captain Sensible, you need to pick up a copy, fix a cup of your favorite...uh, tea, plug in the 'phones and achieve nirvana!

2 out of 5 stars Creative But Pointless.......2005-08-16

Since I am musically adventurous, I bought Psychotropia on a whim when a fellow prog rock aficionado recommended it to me. Needless to say, I was quite disappointed when I listened to it the first time and even more so when I listened several times again.
I'm not saying the CD is horrible. To me, its neither good nor bad. It just does nothing at all for me. The music is creative indeed (yes, I thought of the Beatles too) but it is a pointless exercise which does nothing to advance the essentially dead genre of psychedelic rock. I'm not even sure that the composers intended this to be listened to in any state but altered.
I might have liked this CD more when I was younger, more impressionable, and enjoying the sensual delights of the psychedelic era but then again maybe not. It seems that Mr Nicely is trying too hard for the psychedelic sound whereas with the Beatles and some others, it seemed like a natural part of their musical evolution.
Psychotropia will find favor with some, but I doubt it will be the spark of a psychedelic renaissance. Try it if you must, but remember this review.

5 out of 5 stars Superb British Psychedelia.......2005-01-31

I got a recommendation for this ,checked the download on the NN website ,closed my eyes and jumped .
Got home and 35 seconds into the first track ,I was orbiting Mars .A monumental psych classic .The UK mag NME says it could be off the Beatle's Magical Mystery Tour but ,no bull ,its AS Good .There's no lame paisley cliches tho'in the gloriously acidic songwriting and tripped out arrangements.
Easily the best New Psych album I've ever heard hitting peaks throughout ,each play revealing new details and eerie sensations .There's a good balance here with the experimental abstract psychedelia never dominating the songs like say ,an OTC album might tend to, but at the same time you're never in doubt about the album's core of acidic inspiration.

Magnificent .

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