The Byrds – “Younger Than Yesterday” (1967)
Another review from Mojo-Navigator‘s April 1967 issue, this time by co-editor David Harris…
With this album, the Byrds mark their progress into purely electronic, rather than electronic music. In 5th D one could see a synthesis of rock and Indian classical music; on this lp they are doing to Stockhausen and Varese what they previously did to Ravi Shankar and Jafa Khan. On “CTA 102” electronic effects are combined with electric instruments to simultaneously tell a little joke about space travel and scare the hell out of the listener. Read the rest of this entry »