• Landmark 1968 Los Angeles psychedelic rock rarity — one of the most sought-after cult LPs of the era
• Produced by the legendary Kim Fowley and Michael Lloyd
• Explosive blend of psychedelic blues-rock, spoken word poetry, and proto-heavy riffing

Few records capture the raw, unhinged spirit of late-1960s Los Angeles psychedelia quite like the sole album by St. John Green. Born out of Pasadena City College in 1967, the band coalesced around the creative ambitions of keyboardist Michael "Papabax" Baxter and vocalist Victor "Vic" Sabino, who recruited bassist and aspiring poet Ed Bissot, guitarist Bill Kirkland, and drummer Shelly Scott to complete their vision. The band's very name was a compromise — Bissot had wanted to perform under his personal pseudonym "St. John," and the group met him halfway. The result was an identity as singular and strange as the music itself.

Released in 1968 on the Flick label and produced by the inimitable Kim Fowley alongside Michael Lloyd, St. John Green is a record that defies easy categorisation. It lurches between heavy, blues-drenched guitar riffs, darkly poetic spoken word passages, and moments of genuine menace — a document of a band operating at the fringes of what psychedelic rock could be. Tracks like Goddess of Death, Devil and the Sea, and Do You Believe carry a brooding, almost ritualistic intensity that sounds startlingly ahead of its time, with proto-metal weight and a fire-and-brimstone atmosphere that sets it apart from the sunnier sounds of the Californian scene. This Cosmic Rock reissue brings this essential and long-elusive album back to vinyl for a new generation of collectors and psych devotees.