Joe Meek’s I Hear A New World is one of those sonic experiences you either “get” or you don’t. A sonic David Lynch experience, to be certain…it could be said that Meek presages Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain or Another Green World by many years–the same skewed, left-of center studio thinking is apparent here. Joe Meek himself says, “Yes! This is a strange record. I meant it to be.”

From Glob Waterfall to Valley of No Return you’ll marvel at this literally spaced-out concept album from 1960. This is just as out there as it gets when it comes to conventional instruments in a 60s era recording studio without Zappa or Beefheart singing over the top. Sometimes it’s only the little flourishes that make this so strange…but what flourishes they are.

This is a new, sealed LP–it’s the 1991 RPM reissue via Cherry Red Records. $SOLD OUT