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Today's Shelf Pull: Jon Hopkins, Music for Psychedelic Therapy

Calm With Its Shoes Off

Today's Shelf Pull: Jon Hopkins, Music for Psychedelic. Read Eamon Lane’s story from Kilmorna in Listowel, with the people, records, art or town life behind it.

Some records arrive as if they have been sent to brighten the room.

Music for Psychedelic Therapy arrives as if it has come to ask the room, very politely, to stop jangling its keys.

Jon Hopkins is on the shelf today, and the sleeve is already doing useful work before a side has turned. Pale ground, small red title text, and that soft bloom of pink, orange and blue in the middle, like a thought deciding it might become a cloud if nobody rushes it. It is not shouting from the crate. It is holding its nerve.

Good. The shelf can use a bit of nerve that is not just volume.

On the shelf today

Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy

2LP / Electronic / 2021

EUR32.95 / Available now

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