This may well be the most difficult album to review. If you seek this out expecting a more trippy version of Dark Side of the Moon, you'll be disappointed. Listen to it while you're as high as Syd Barrett no doubt was when he wrote much of it and you'll have nightmares. Listen to it expecting a linear musical theme and you'll shut it off after 4 minutes, wishing you could get that time back. Whatever you think of it upon first listen will be different than the next. Piper asks much of its listener and probably wasn't intended to be taken in all in one sitting. All in all it doesn't feel unified enough to qualify as a great album, as much as it is a forgotten musical phenomenon. It does serve as a precursor to early Bowie, Lou Reed (whose own Velvet Underground simultaneously touched on similar themes) and Sonic Youth.