Though the “soul collective” formed in Japan in 1995, Acid Mothers Temple’s mind-melting experimental psychedelia sounds like it was born in some distant galaxy and hurtled through outer space, only to crash-land on earth in the middle of the ’70s. It’s meditative, cosmic, and trance-inducing, with endlessly spiraling guitar riffs, gurgling electronics, unpredictable bursts of percussion, and bizarre, droning vocals. Acid Mothers Temple are legends, and you should absolutely experience their strange, hypnotic, extraterrestrial-sounding music live.

CIARA DOLAN