Os Mutantes Os Mutantes 180g Import LP & CD

2023 repress. Lilith present a reissue of Os Mutantes' self-titled debut, originally released in 1968.

With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red-hot Tropicália scene wide open. Fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock, and a good dose of pure experimentation, they quickly became giants both in Brazil and in the outer fringes of pop music, where they have managed to reign supreme for the past four decades. Not an easy task in such a crowded arena. Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Tom Zé, and Os Mutantes? What do these people put in their drinking water? The band went on to release several more albums, but this one was their magnum opus. OBI "bookmark" Japanese-style; 180-gram vinyl; includes CD.

The band's debut album, Os Mutantes, is far and away their best - a wildly inventive trip that assimilates orchestral pop, whimsical psychedelia, musique concrète, found-sound environments - and that's just the first song!...an astonishing listen. It's far more experimental than any of the albums produced by the era's first-rate psychedelic bands of Britain or America.