Music for Psychedelic Therapy
by Jon Hopkins
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Nov 12, 2021
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Clash Music
    Nov 23, 2021
    90
    This is Hopkins’ strongest album to date. It is also his bravest. Which is saying something indeed.
  2. Exclaim
    Nov 10, 2021
    90
    Music for Psychedelic Therapy is a magical union of nature and creativity, a space where the mind can open, and do so with transportive beauty.
  3. musicOMH.com
    Nov 10, 2021
    90
    Music For Psychedelic Therapy is a real accomplishment, otherwordly escapism that’s irresistible for the mind, body and soul.
  5. Dusted Magazine
    Jan 12, 2022
    80
    An album about finding meaning in the quiet, and even people who will never take psychedelic drugs or visit remote Ecuadorian caves, can get something out of that.
  6. Mojo
    Nov 10, 2021
    80
    It's music that's soothing as transportive. [Dec 2021, p.87]
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  7. PopMatters
    Nov 10, 2021
    80
    It’s a humbling listen. Describing this album and what it does is ultimately futile. You won’t get it until you go through the music yourself. From the first strike of the meditation bell to the very last crackle of firewood, you are spellbound. If you let yourself be.
  8. Uncut
    Nov 10, 2021
    80
    While its New Age themes may dissuade some, Hopkins affirms his genius for fashioning unparalleled landscapes from sound. [Dec 2021, p.28]
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  9. Under The Radar
    Nov 10, 2021
    75
    Once again, Hopkins invites us to experience the meeting of heaven and earth and be transformed.
  10. Pitchfork
    Nov 18, 2021
    74
    Surprisingly enough, the album’s highlight comes in “Sit Around the Fire,” which was surely Hopkins’ riskiest move. The deeply moving piano-synth track features the late spiritual leader Ram Dass speaking to a congregation in 1975.
  11. AllMusic
    Nov 10, 2021
    70
    Music for Psychedelic Therapy isn't as overwhelming as Hopkins' previous two albums, but it's still an enlightening trip inspired by a lifetime of profound experiences.
  12. The Observer (UK)
    Nov 15, 2021
    60
    In among all this pervasive beauty (which tends towards expansive prettiness and resonant succour rather than the sterner, more austere end of the ambience spectrum), it feels like only the eight-minute apex track Deep in the Glowing Heart rearranges the listener’s molecules in a transformational way.
  13. DIY Magazine
    Nov 10, 2021
    60
    This is handsome, but not essential.
  14. Resident Advisor
    Dec 14, 2021
    50
    At its best, the LP touches on the dizzying maximalism that made past records so thrilling. But at other times it treads the same ground as the healing frequency meditation videos that proliferate on YouTube.

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User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Evic21
    Dec 23, 2021
    10
    The album flows with musical flourishes and similarities throughout, which makes it sound like one piece of music than a collection of songs.The album flows with musical flourishes and similarities throughout, which makes it sound like one piece of music than a collection of songs. The meditative electronics mixed with the natural ambience allows the mind to carve its own path through the music all the way to its final track where everything comes together and the journey is understood.… Full Review »
  2. Imigraczech
    Nov 15, 2021
    10
    This album is very deep! I can not explain how this is possible but I literally got a trip from that music. It makes you calm down, find yourThis album is very deep! I can not explain how this is possible but I literally got a trip from that music. It makes you calm down, find your piece and concentrate on yourself. Of course, it's not an album for a tour and there are no hits, but overall it's a very conceptual work by Jon. I was very surprised how he incorporates the sound he did in the last album to this one (Welcome). He creates a story with it. You follow it and you start with Jon this amazing psychedelic therapy. During this trip, you make an inner reflection of the things which happened to you and affected you. You find your emotional calmness and you release the things you wanted to release a long ago, but were scared. This is real therapy. Thank you, Jon!… Full Review »
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