Kinetic

Out-Of-Print CD from Kramer's Second-Shimmy label Psychedelic music is not only psychedelic rock, psychedelic soul and psychedelic funk--it is also psychedelic folk-rock--and one of the most psychedelic-sounding folk-rock groups of the 21st century has been the Dublin, Ireland-based Jessie & Layla. The guitar-playing vocal duo is comprised of sisters Jessie and Layla Collins, whose trippy, hazy, lush approach to folk-rock owes a lot to the era that gave us the Summer of Love, Woodstock, flower power and Haight-Ashbury. Influences from the '60s and early '70s have had a major impact on Jessie & Layla's ethereal sound, including the Fairport Convention, the Strawbs, the late Sandy Denny, the Mamas & Papas and the Beatles (specifically, the Beatles during their White Album/Abbey Road/Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine period rather than the Beatles in the early to mid-'60s). But for all their '60s and early '70s worship, Jessica & Layla are not a carbon copy of that