Robert Margouleff, later of Tontoโ€™s Expanding Headband, produced the first of these two albums in 1968, and the best of its Moog and Theremin embellishments sound like the blueprints for Tontoโ€™s groundbreaking Zero Time album. Elsewhere, alas, despite occasional nods to early Captain Beefheart, things never get quite as weird as youโ€™d really like them to. The lyrics lapse a little too often into fortune cookie koans of the โ€œtoday is only yesterdayโ€™s tomorrowโ€ variety, and at times the irritation factor couldnโ€™t be any higher if They Might Be Giants were jamming with Devo. John Emelinโ€™s off-the-wall vocal style lends proceedings a certain angularity, and the seven-minute title track of 1969โ€™s Space Hymn is absolutely ripe for sampling, but too often the synth bubbles and squeaks just arenโ€™t enough to disguise some stunningly average country-tinged pop.