![]() ![]() With his clipped, deadpan voice, his free-guitar scrawl and its reliance on feedback, echo, and distortion, and a lyrical, strictly stream-of-consciousness melody-making style-to say nothing of his wooly fashion-Barrett all but invented British psychedelia in his image an English eccentric equivalent to stateside psychotropics such as Roky Erickson, Mayo Thompson, Paul Kantner, and Skip Spence.įor all of the whimsy, woe, and spaced-out oddity of his music with Pink Floyd (1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and, to a far-lesser degree of contribution, 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets) and his threadbare, childlike solo efforts ( The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, both 1970), Barrett’s inventions are often thrown under the bus of his personal struggles with mental health issues and druggy, psychogenic fugue states. ![]() Whether as the co-founder of Pink Floyd or on his own in the darkness of abstract art-rock as a solo act, guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist Syd Barrett was a bold anomaly. ![]()
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