Album Info

Psychedelic Revolution

Rock - 2012

Always a nutter, Julian Cope abandoned the mainstream circa 1997 to address his unrepentant love of revolutionaries, psychedelic riffing, and... more

Tracklist

1

Raving On the Moor

5:45 min
2

Vive Le Suicide

4:37 min
3

Cromwell In Ireland

3:11 min
4

Revolutionary Man

4:51 min
5

As the Beer Flows Over Me

3:29 min
6

Hooded & Benign

9:02 min
1

Psychedelic Revolution

5:01 min
2

X-Mass In the Woman’s Shelter

6:17 min
3

Roswell

7:46 min
4

Because He Was Wooden

5:29 min
5

The Death of Rock‘n’roll

5:36 min

About Psychedelic Revolution

Always a nutter, Julian Cope abandoned the mainstream circa 1997 to address his unrepentant love of revolutionaries, psychedelic riffing, and beautiful noise. He's since released albums under a variety of names—Brain Donor and Black Sheep among the most interesting—and continues to uncover obscure music on his Head Heritage website. 2012's Psychedelic Revolution strips back the Stooges-Hawkwind-Sonics punk-psychedelia stomp for a minstrel-in-the-peanut-gallery approach that puts his commanding vocals and controversial lyrics upfront, often next to a cozy Mellotron. The album is divided into two sides: one is Phase of Che Guevara, the other Phase of Leila Khaled. Subject matter aside, Cope creates a dramatic musical force with "Hooded & Benign," the nine-minute finale of the Che Guevara side. "Psychedelic Revolution," sung with Canadian chanteuse Lucy Brownhills, extols: "If you're a fat cat, you're going down." "X-Mass in the Woman's Shelter" is chilling. "As the Beer Flows Over Me" could be the soundtrack to a bawdy, rebellious wake.