Various – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk, Soul, Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975

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Now-Again Records follow up to one of its most well-loved compilations,Forge Your Own Chains, with another batch of rare, largely uncompiled –and sometimes barely heard – heavy psych-rock and funk. Poundingdrums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bringyou up on a downer.Tickets For Doomsday, as the title hints, is and rumination on what mightbefall the human race made especially salient by the past years trialsand tribulations as performed by prison funk ensembles, Indonesianhippies, Krautrock legends, Icelandic prog-rock bands and even Bay Area rap catalyst E-40s uncle, the man to first distribute Master Ps No Limit Records, and the creator of this albums title track, St. Charles Chucky Thurman. A unique and compelling listen, and surely a worthy companionfor these times.