By Spirit, 1968

Spirit's self-titled debut album is one whose multifarious experimentalism owes in large part to the contemporary successes of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn , earmarked the humble beginnings and grand aspirations of its eponymous authors . While the mindset required to produce Spirit was ubiquitous, however, the endeavour itself was far from clichèd.

The eclecticism of Randy California's writing coupled Barrett's psychotropism with Morrison's West Coast bohemianism ; and although the result proved somewhat inaccessible to the masses, it made the project ripe for underground FM airtime. The band would later curtail its psychedelia by focusing on a broader array of genres.

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