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Phlox is a Malaysian psych rock quartet featuring Hakim Tahar (vocals/keyboards/guitars), Hanafi Rahman (guitar), Syazwan Sazali (bass) and Ahmad Zulikhwan (drums).

Their first full length album Quiver shows them finding a middle ground between Pink Floyd, Ozric Tentacles and some Britpop bands like The Verve (themselves very PF-influenced).

The recurring Quiver (in three parts) offers a darker twist to the trippy motifs, while Speak To Me soars unexpectedly. Where You Go and Inside Outside continue in the same vein.

I also find Morning Dreams and Everything Kills You to be charmingly deranged acoustic guitar excursions.

Although I prefer the follow up album YWNTS, this is still a good place to start.

The Malaysian psych scene is very poorly documented but there are interesting albums.

Phlox's two albums rank alongside The Strollers' Waiting Is, Damn Dirty Apes' Valve State Dreams. Capt'n Trips And The Kids' The Paraverse, Golden Mammoth's Skyscraper Towards The Sun and Martin Vengadesan & The Stalemate Factor's The Knight's Flight as the best of Malaysian psychedelic music.

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