Awesome Song of the Week! "Garden Botanum" by These Trails

Hey! I'm back, and for my first awesome song of the year I have a song so obscure that not even Yogurt-Pooh can hold a candle to it.

http://ponytone.com/streams/Garden%20Botanum.mp3

This song comes from the awkwardly-titled Hawaiian psych-folk band These Trails. Like many awesome psych bands of the 60s, These Trails only made one album, and it went absolutely nowhere. But recently some music nerd discovered it and it's been making its way around the internet. I haven't heard any word of a CD re-issue or anything, so These Trails haven't experienced the same kind of revival that some of their contemporaries have (such as The Zombies). But that just makes you cooler for knowing about them.

Now, admittedly, These Trails is not a band for everyone (see how awkward that sentence was? What an awkward band name). The very quivery vocals might be a little difficult to get used to, along with the very all-over-the-place song structures. And if you're not down with just synths and acoustic guitars, you won't like anything they've ever recorded. But if you're willing to give it a chance, I promise it will grow on you, and soon you'll realize that These Trails are (is?) without a doubt the most awesome overlooked Hawaiian acoustic psych folk band of all time. Of all time!

Anyway, enjoy this song. I think I picked the most accessible song from the album, so if you're into it, listen to the whole thing and expect lots of spaced-out psychedelic goodness.