Upon your first listen to this record you may think that you’ve just stumbled onto some lost nugget from 1968.

The Paperhead take their name from a lyric in July’s golden-age psychedelic single My Clown, and while the record may have a vintage sound, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2010 by three 18 year old kids from Nashville, Tennessee. Neo-psych fans may hear a more ambitious White Fence or a poppier Spacemen 3, or dare we be so bold as to say post-LSD Beatles.

Before they all went their separate ways to start college Ryan Jennings and his closest childhood friends Walker Mimms and Peter Stringer-Hye holed up to record an album that combines all the orchestrated pop layers, eastern influence and groovy instrumentals of a classic British Psych record. It’s no exaggeration to say these guy’s technical and songwriting abilities far outreach their young age.

Switch on the lava lamp, burn some incense, roll up a fat one, and try for yourself and see.

Their self-titled album is released on the Trouble In Mind label on the 22nd March.

Visit their MySpace here.

Download The Paperhead – Back To Those Days mp3 (from The Paperhead)