The Head Shop - 'The Head Shop' (Vinyl LP Record)

Sold Date: September 14, 2020
Start Date: July 12, 2019
Final Price: $23.38 (USD)
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Brand new vinyl record.

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Item Summary:

In an industry filled with eccentric and enigmatic figures, few are as mysterious as the producer/ songwriter/performer Milan Radenkovic, best known by his mononymous title Milan, The Leather Boy. A character described as so stylized he could have been created by Andy Warhol, Milan was a fixture of garage and psychedelic rock production despite never attaining a commercial hit, and despite very little being known about him. In spite of the confusion surrounding his background (Or as a result of it, more likely.) Milan has entered music history as one of the great anomalies of the industry, and singles and albums that he has either performed on, wrote for, or produced have often sold for high prices on the record collectors' market.

The Head Shop is one such project. An otherwise obscure New York garage rock unit that would release a single, self-titled album, one that would become among the final projects that Milan worked on before his early death from brain cancer. A sparse and dystopian affair, The Head Shop is an acid trip of a garage album, featuring heavily layered psychedelic fuzz dementedly fused with spacious, and agoraphobic arrangements, with the intent of merging then-modern music with those of experimental classical sounds. As expected, the album was far too bizarre for contemporary audiences, but it became enormously sought after among crate diggers, and stands out as one of the stranger productions of the 1960s.