The Flower Machine

Starting with their 2004 debut album “Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company,” The Flower Machine has been one of the longest-running yet most obscure bands in the Los Angeles psych scene. Led by Dutch-American singer and guitarist Peter Quinnell, the band has consistently focused on crafting dense, heavily overdubbed psych-pop songs, delivered through an intermittent series of loud and chaotic performances in the LA club scene.

Strongly influenced by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Dutch legends The Outsiders, and Kevin Ayers, The Flower Machine’s idiosyncratic take on psychedelia was shaped during Peter’s formative years in Amsterdam, a city where the spirit of 1967 in many ways never ended.