The High Dials Provide Canadian Content On Psychedelic Compilation

In what its touting as the "best compilation album ever made bar none," U.K. label Northern Star Records has compiled 33 tracks of psychedelic rock on the two-disc Psychedelica Volume One.

"None of these bands sound anything like each other, yet they're classed as psychedelia," Northern Star co-founder Scott Causer told Billboard.com. "The psychedelic genre has developed in all sorts of different directions and is very diverse."

Causer and partner Andy Oliver appear on the album with their respective bands, The Electric Mainline and Spacegarden.

"We noticed that on MySpace, bands are altering their profile genres to include "psychedelic" as their primary genre, and now we are receiving CDs from more mainstream indie bands who have exclusively recorded psychedelic tracks especially to appear on our album," Oliver said.

The collection ranges from pioneering groups like the Silver Apples and the Electric Prunes to current established acts such as the Brian Jonestown Massacre and up-and-comers like The Black Angels and Canada's The High Dials.

"I think psychedelia has always been there, but it has been prominent twice before and now it's returning to prominence for the third time," Causer said. "I couldn't begin to describe the journey, as psychedelia is a journey within itself. It'll go where it goes."

Psychedelica Volume One can be sampled and purchased through Northern Star's website. Volume Two is scheduled to come out near the end of the year.

Here are the tracks on Psychedelica Volume One:
Disc one:
Lovetones — “Stars”
The Dolly Rocker — “On A June Morning”
The Black Angels — “Black Grease”
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians — “Getting By”
Brian Jonestown Massacre — “Anenome”
HeadQuarters —  “Tunnel Vision”
Black Nite Crash — “Falling Down”
The Hiss — “Cazzie”
Daydream Nation — “Passing Notion”
The Future Kings Of England — “Dunwich”
The Shrills — “Revealed”
The Otherside — “Hey You”
The Vandelles — “Lovely Weather”
Electric Prunes — “Night At The Rendezvous”
Silver Apples — “Purple Egg”
The Fuzztones — “Salem Witch Trial”
Floorian — “In Slow Emotion”

Disc two:
Pioneer 4 — “I See Harmony”
The Electric Mainline — “We Are Now”
Snowdonnas — “Come Closer”
The High Dials — “Sick With The Old Fire”
Say Jansfield — “Gon, Gon, Gon”
The Bleeding Hearts — “Givin’ Up”
The Bavarian Druglords — “First Dimension”
The Telescopes — “Winter 7”
The Lazily Spun — “Eastern G”
Spacegarden — “Blood Red Dawn Of Opium”
Fuxa — “Hide Away”
Dedelectric — “Bad Ways”
On Holiday — “Amaze Me”
Dabenport — “Sit In The Sun”
God Is An Astronaut — “A Moment Of Stillness”
 Silvertone — “If I Would Give My Life”