The Red Crayola With The Familar Ugly- The Parable of Arable Land

Label: International Artists / Charly

Reissued 1/31/2025, Originally released 1967

After Houston-based International Artists Records enjoyed unexpected commercial success with one of the most eccentric bands to emerge from the State of Texas, the 13th Floor Elevators, the label's proprietors presumably set out to find some folks who were even weirder, and they found a band that fit the bill in the Red Crayola.  While the truly bent Texas psychedelic scene of the 1960s provided a context in which the Red Crayola could thrive, The Parable of Arable Land exists on a plane all its own; if art-damaged noise rock began anywhere, it was on this album.

Track listing:

1. Free Form Freak-Out 
2. Hurricane Fighter Plane
3. Free Form Freak-Out
4. Transparent Radiation
5. Free Form Freak-Out
6. War Sucks
7. Free Form Freak-Out
8. Free Form Freak-Out
9. Pink Stainless Tail
10. Free Form Freak-Out
11. Parable Of Arable Land
12. Free Form Freak-Out
13. Former Reflections Enduring Doubt