Kula Shaker and the New Psychedelia
Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1996
BRITPOPs 60s revivalism has brought in its wake all manner of cosmic hoo-hah. Hallucinogens have taken over from cigarettes-and-alcohol as the switched-on Englishmans millenium-blues-buster of choice. Theres even talk of a new Movement — the New Psychedelia. And the band with its finger most firmly on the spiritual pulse is Kula Shaker.
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