Alexander "Skip" Spence Oar (Sundazed)

Ranked #38 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".
"...anarchic in conception but somehow holding onto form and rhythm in execution...OAR presents some of the most comfortable music I've ever heard..."
4 stars (out of 5) - "...Genius and madness coexist brilliantly on OAR's deceptively still waters. This sonically faithful and lovingly documented reissue will only further its legend."
Highly Recommended - "...psychedelic blues...the sound on this reissue is magnificent...OAR has long been one of America's truly exceptional musical experiences..."
"The album's just-left-of-normal folk/country compositions and tragicomic ruminations demonstrate how deeply the damage had already been done..."
"...As a devolution of pop forms into haunted madness....it's unique...OAR is the sound of a dark night of the soul, but its stumbling one-man-band overdubs and half formed tunes make it very hard to listen to....The good news is that this latest reissue restores the foggy original mix...and a few of the songs are really lovely..."
"...an unusual album...[It] does as much to capture the sound and soul of the raggedy, revolutionary 60s as much as any other recording of its time....an unfinished work from an unfinished life."
"[The album] wrests baroque plaintiveness from Spence's darkest recesses."
Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "This proto lo-fi document was uncomfortably at odds with everything else at the time..."
"...Oscillating between biblical apocalypse, looney tunes humour, therapeutic release, and 'sincere belief'...OAR is nothing less than a spiritual and psychic journey....[It] remains as fresh as the moment when it was recorded..."
Ranked #29 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Skip drifts through psych, blues and folk, like some forlorn hobo phantom, forging a lost and desolate beauty..."