Picture Dublin, 1967: While the rest of the world was learning to fly, Dr. Strangely Strange was teaching Irish folk music how to levitate. These sonic sorcerers caught the ear of Joe Boyd, the wizard behind the Incredible String Band, and suddenly, Celtic psychedelia was born!

Their 1969 debut, Kip of the Serenes, wasn’t just an album - it was a magic potion that turned listeners into instant flower children. But like any good trip, things got... well, strange. Tim Goulding took a detour to Buddha-ville, while Ivan Pawle and Tim Booth joined forces with Gay and Terry Woods for a folksy supergroup jam.

After more reunions than a high school yearbook committee, they dropped Alternative Medicine in 1997 - proving you can’t keep a good doctor down. Now, Think Like A Key Music is dusting off the old prescription pad with Radio Sessions, released in October 2022. It’s not just a collection of rare BBC recordings; it’s a time machine fueled by shamrock shakes and rainbow dreams.

But wait, there’s more! Ireland’s psychedelic docs are back after 28 years with Anti-Inflammatory — a cure for a mad world, no prescription needed. The original crew, still electric, join ‘newbie’ Joe Thoma (fiddle-mandolin vet since ’80) in a Clonakilty studio under Brian Casey’s watch.

Tim Goulding’s Like Water like Wind mourns like a soft breeze, Ivan Pawle’s Drive ‘Em Down ropes a cattle-romance, and Tim Booth’s Baby Bunting rides a Bo Diddley pulse to the beyond. Since 1997’s Alternative Medicine, fans waited—this is their strange, soulful remedy.

1. Up with the Lark [2:50]
2. Baby Bunting [3:14]
3. Like Water Like Wind [2:40]
4. Sulán [2:25]
5. Rosenallis Two-step [4:27]
6. Drive ’em Down [4:50]
7. Murmuration [3:36]
8. Morning Song [2:19]
9. Back in the Day [2:40]
10. Vienna [2:07]

Grab your sitar, don your flower crown, and ready yourself to get Strangely Strange all over again, for this brilliantly enduring new recording opens on the veritably crystalline scene-setting within Up with the Lark and then the rhythmically jaunty Baby Bunting, the melancholy Like Water Like Wind comes next and then we get the magnificent hipsway of the lush Sulán and the jaunty 70’s-hued Rosenallis Two-step.

Up next is a rhythmically pleasant romance that unfolds within Drive ’em Down which is itself backed seamlessly by an aching yearn within Murmuration, a deeply resonant Morning Song, the music rounding out all too soon on the storytelling of Back in the Day, closing on the low slung, bluesy piano ballad Vienna.

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