The Details: Alice Coltrane, Universal Consciousness
The Reason(s) We Can’t Stop Listening: Wow, talk about an album that cracks open your subconscious and consumes you. No wonder why Flying Lotus has been obsessively compiling a documentary on his great aunt the last couple years—because records like this are the missing link between Lotus’ psychedelic beatscapes and a bloodline that’s on a different plane than the rest of us. Whether you’re into free jazz or not, this is one rabbit hole worth exploring, a slightly mad downward spiral of loose grooves that’ll you want to keep locked down long after they fade into the shadows.
