Kula Shaker

Kula Shaker formed in London in 1995 and were Britpop's most earnestly psychedelic outliers — Crispian Mills drew on Indian classical music, Sanskrit lyrics, and 1960s psychedelia in a way that sat oddly alongside the lad culture of their chart contemporaries. Tattva, their debut single, was built on a Sanskrit mantra. K, their debut album, went straight to number one in the UK. Crispian Mills played Gibson SG and Les Paul guitars through Marshall amplifiers with wah pedals and fuzz boxes that referenced the late 1960s more than the mid-1990s. They were simultaneously the era's most unfashionable and most interesting act.