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As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips.

Deluxe 2LP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket illustrated by Benjamin Marra, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs. Compact disc is packaged in standard Numero slipcase, with digipak and 40-page book, limited to 2000 copies.

In Numero's Wayfaring Strangers, we’ve charted the one-off efforts of wandering folkies, lost troubadours, and purveyors of primal guitar. Among these Joni Mitchell acolytes, walkers in Dylan and Buckley’s most forlorn shoes, and supplicants at the Fahey altar, find future climbers of Windham Hill, a Terlingua hubcap painter, and an All-Star NHL defensemen looking ruefully backward from 1973.