Yin and Yang is a cool title to this as the album really does have a duality to it. Overall, I’d land it into a creative, explorative progressive rock zone. There is quite a bit of range and quite a few sounds are represented within that heading, though. It should be noted that there are sometimes parental advisories here.

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The musical motif that starts this, and comes back here and there, has a little bit of reggae built into it. Overall, though, this wanders through a number of changes and alterations and feels like an organic, indie rock based progressive rock jam with some hints of blues.

At almost nine and a half minutes in length, this thing is massive. It starts with just a poetry reading. Then keyboards join adding another layer of sound. As percussion is added, it calls to mind beat poetry. A little before the one minute mark, guitar and bass are added and we’re taken to something that moves slowly but calls to mind progressive rock merged with psychedelia and space rock. Mind you, by this point the vocals have gone away. It contains without vocals for four minutes or so, then amidst atmospheric keyboards the poetry reading returns. Around the six minute mark it returns to more rocking music without the vocals as the bass guitar leads the way. Then everything but the bass drops away and that instrument stops and eventually the sustain fades away. Percussion returns and we’re off into a killer psychedelic jam as the other instruments are added. It drops down to just drums and then rises gradually back up from there.

This shorter (less than three minutes) tune is quite a bit like 1960s psychedelia, but with some modern progressive rock in the mix, too. It’s one of the most readily accessible numbers here, and quite cool.

There are some modern effects on some of the vocals here and this is even more trippy and psychedelic than the original version from The Beatles. The early sections are very electronic, but then the more rocking section has a distorted, indie-rock meets psychedelic vibe to it. The mellower mode returns for the closing segment of the piece.

Slow bluesy music with lots of psychedelic sound is heard here. This instrumental seems to be a bit lacking in direction, but makes up for it in style.

Bass opens this and the cut launches out into a cool jam with both blues and space rock built into it. There’s some jazz, too. There’s a weird vocal bit at the end of this that takes it into the next track as the instruments drop away.

This short, less than two minutes, track combines space rock with techno music at the start. Then the bass leads it in a different direction.

The bass leads this one to a large degree, too. It’s sort of a stripped down space rock tune with some punk and reggae in the mix.