The Inn - Psychedelic Schedule

Not a lot of info on this American four-piece. The late 80s/early 90s was their time, they hailed from North Carolina and made 3 or 4 albums of melodic psychedelic pop, west coast style.

I first encountered them via the 1992 Delerium compilation 'Fun With Mushrooms', on which they contributed a track called 'Who's My Name' (great title!). 'Psychedelic Schedule' was their debut album, released in 1987 on Voxx Records. By far the most psychedelic thing about it is the sleeve, an absolute riot of colours and lysergic imagery. The music contained within (excluding 'Roy G Biv'...more on this later) doesn't quite reflect the cover, but it is a good collection of psych-pop songs, fairly lo-fi and relentlessly catchy.

So, 'Roy G Biv'. Within the context of the album, it's like they suddenly forgot that they were making an LP of 4 minute psych-pop gems and included a 25 minute long track that starts like a garage-punk spy theme, then drifts off into 15 minutes of extremely spaced-out drum and guitar, laden with echoes and muffled, abstract noises, before finishing off with more fuzzed-up spy theme madness. Hmm....this must have been when the acid hit...

Track listing:

Side 1

1. Roy G Biv

Side 2

1. Marlwood Lake
2. Infinity's Beginning
3. What's It Like?
4. Mind Confection
5. Soon

Get it here

By the way, apologies for the couple of jumps towards the end of 'Roy G Biv'. Damned mice have been scurrying around in my record collection again.