Various Artists – Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk, Soul, Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975 [RSD Black Friday Excl] (LP-New)

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. Pounding drums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bring you up on a downer.

Tickets For Doomsday, as the title hints, is and rumination on what might befall the human race ? made especially salient by the past year?s trials and tribulations ? as performed by prison funk ensembles, Indonesian hippies, Krautrock legends, Icelandic prog-rock bands and even Bay Area rap catalyst E-40?s uncle, the man to rst distribute Master P?s No Limit Records, and the creator of this album?s title track, St. Charles ?Chucky? Thurman. A unique and compelling listen, and surely a worthy companion for these times.