Jefferson Airplane-Crown Of Creation (1968)

Jefferson Airplane were pioneers in experimenting with the psychedelic sounds of folk and rock, framed within the gentle Californian flower power movement. Songs like "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" are classics of 20th-century contemporary music. But as is often the case, within a few years their style shifted towards more mature compositions, expanding their creativity to more avant-garde and experimental heights. With their fourth album, "Crown of Creation", the band went a step further, showcasing, from its cover and title, a wealth of musical ideas, allowing them to reach new heights thanks to collaborations with musicians like David Crosby, In Underwood, and Frank Zappa himself. In the year of its release, the flower power movement was giving way to the maelstrom of the Vietnam War, and it was in this context that the band, led by Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner, Jack Cassidy, and Spencer Dryden, immersed themselves in the political and social protest that was sweeping the world in general and the United States in particular during those years, with biting and defiant lyrics. Powerful psychedelic rock tracks like "Star Trek", nods to the past like "Greasy Heart", lysergic psychedelic canvases like "The House At Pooneil Corners", strange surreal experiments like "Chushingura", and dreamy folk melodies like "In Time" and "Triad" propelled them into the American top ten and cemented their popularity as a leading band in the world of 1960s pop-rock.