Various Artists - Soft Summer Breezes (Various Artists) (Colored Vinyl, Yellow)

Following in the wake of baroque chart

toppers by the Zombies, Beatles, and

the Left Banke, a dandier approach to

garage rock flowered in the back half of

the '60s. Awash in majestic harpsichords,

lilting guitars, melancholic organs, and

middle school orchestras, Soft Summer

Breezes captures the decade's last gasps of

optimism via 16 gentle moments of soft

psychedelia.