--- title: "Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych Wildlife & Soundtracks (14 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Explore all 14 animals paired with Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych Wildlife & Musical Subculture > Mind-bending fuzz pedals, swirling phaser guitars, motorik rhythms, and kaleidoscope sonic journeys. **Similar Artists**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Tame Impala, Pink Floyd, Ocean Alley, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Super Furry Animals, Pond - **Species Count**: 14 Curated Creatures - **Explore Web**: [Interactive vibe player & gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/psychedelic-rock-neo-psych/) ## Species Aligned With Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych - [Aardvark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aardvark/) (*Orycteropus afer*) - **Musical Match**: Mike Oldfield, "Tubular Bells - Pt. I" - **Biological Rationale**: An aardvark's teeth have no enamel and are made of densely packed tubules instead. Mike Oldfield layered dozens of instruments into Tubular Bells, Part One, and brought it to a finale struck on a set of tubular bells. - **Superpower**: Spade-like claws that dig with great speed and force - [American Robin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-robin/) (*Turdus migratorius*) - **Musical Match**: The Beatles, "Here Comes The Sun" - **Biological Rationale**: A robin's rich caroling is among the earliest bird songs heard at dawn, often beginning just before first light. "Here Comes the Sun" is a song for that same moment, a bright acoustic riff that greets the sunrise. - **Superpower**: A song that often starts just before first light - [Asian Giant Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-giant-hornet/) (*Vespa mandarinia*) - **Musical Match**: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, "Fire" - **Biological Rationale**: Japanese honeybees kill an invading giant hornet by balling around it and vibrating their flight muscles until the heat reaches almost 47°C. Arthur Brown performed "Fire" wearing a headdress that was set alight. - **Superpower**: Raiding parties that can kill 5,000 to 25,000 honeybees in a few hours - [Barreleye Fish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barreleye-fish/) (*Macropinna microstoma*) - **Musical Match**: Can, "Vitamin C" - **Biological Rationale**: Psychedelic rock runs on one hypnotic groove held far longer than it should be, and the barreleye hunts the same way: its large, flat fins hold it nearly motionless 600 to 800 meters down, and its tubular eyes rotate inside a transparent shield, pointing up while it watches for food overhead and forward when it feeds. - **Superpower**: Tubular eyes that rotate from pointing up to pointing forward inside a transparent, fluid-filled shield - [Bornean Orangutan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bornean-orangutan/) (*Pongo pygmaeus*) - **Musical Match**: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, "Multi-Love" - **Biological Rationale**: Warm analog tape flutter and hazy, unhurried psychedelic soul chords, for an ape that normally moves cautiously, climbing and walking through large trees to spread its weight. - **Superpower**: Long arms that help it travel through the canopy, and hands and feet that can both grasp - [Clouded Leopard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/clouded-leopard/) (*Neofelis nebulosa*) - **Musical Match**: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows" - **Biological Rationale**: Its ankles rotate backward, so it climbs down a trunk headfirst and can hang from its back feet with a gape of about 100 degrees waiting below. This track runs its guitar solo and tape loops in reverse over a drum that never changes direction: everything above the beat is upside down. - **Superpower**: Rotating ankles let it climb down a tree headfirst and hang from its back feet - [Duck-Billed Platypus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/) (*Ornithorhynchus anatinus*) - **Musical Match**: Pink Floyd, "Astronomy Domine" - **Biological Rationale**: Pink Floyd's swirling space-rock, for an animal that hunts underwater with its eyes and ears shut, steering by about 40,000 electroreceptors in its bill that pick up the electrical impulses of living prey. - **Superpower**: Electroreceptive bill with 40,000 electroreceptors, venomous hind-leg spurs, and cyan-green UV biofluorescence - [Geoffroy's Spider Monkey](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geoffroys-spider-monkey/) (*Ateles geoffroyi*) - **Musical Match**: Tame Impala, "Let It Happen" - **Biological Rationale**: Big groups of Geoffroy's spider monkeys split into smaller subgroups to forage, and the whole group is together for only a few weeks a year. Let It Happen breaks apart into a stuck, skipping loop halfway through, then pulls itself back together into the groove. - **Superpower**: A tail that can pick things up and hold the monkey's weight - [Gharial](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gharial/) (*Gavialis gangeticus*) - **Musical Match**: The Mars Volta, "The Widow" - **Biological Rationale**: Serpentine melodies over complex progressive rhythms, for a crocodilian whose males carry a cartilaginous lid on the nostril that flaps as they exhale, making a loud buzz. - **Superpower**: Up to 110 razor-sharp teeth, a low-drag slashing strike, and a male's ghara that buzzes as he exhales - [Goat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goat/) (*Capra hircus*) - **Musical Match**: NEU!, "Hallogallo" - **Biological Rationale**: A goat's digestive system works nonstop throughout its adult life, and feed takes 11 to 15 hours to pass through. Hallogallo rides one motorik drum beat for ten minutes without a break. - **Superpower**: A digestive system that works nonstop, with a four-compartment stomach and an intestinal canal about 30.5 meters long - [Koala](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/koala/) (*Phascolarctos cinereus*) - **Musical Match**: Ocean Alley, "Confidence" - **Biological Rationale**: Sun-drenched reverbed guitars over a deep, laid-back bassline, the register of a male koala's mating bellow: a novel vocal organ drops each inhalation to an average 27.1 Hz, 20 times lower than expected for an 8 kg animal. - **Superpower**: A huge caecum, and gut bacteria that break down the eucalyptus toxins most herbivores can't tolerate. - [Monarch Butterfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/monarch-butterfly/) (*Danaus plexippus*) - **Musical Match**: Pink Floyd, "Time" - **Biological Rationale**: Migrating eastern monarchs steer by a time-compensated sun compass, and clocks in their antennae likely provide the timing. Pink Floyd's Time opens with a room full of clocks ticking and chiming at once. - **Superpower**: Eastern monarchs migrate up to 3,000 miles using a sun compass - [Red Kite](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kite/) (*Milvus milvus*) - **Musical Match**: Super Furry Animals, "Juxtapozed with U" - **Biological Rationale**: When soaring it constantly adjusts the angle of its forked tail to steer, while barely moving its wings. Juxtapozed with U glides the same way: lush orchestral strings and breezy vocal harmonies that drift on small shifts rather than big beats. - **Superpower**: A deeply forked tail it keeps angling to steer while soaring, barely moving its wings. - [Thorny Devil](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-devil/) (*Moloch horridus*) - **Musical Match**: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, "The River" - **Biological Rationale**: Microtonal riffs and relentless driving motorik rhythms for a lizard that eats ants without a body lunge, each feeding event faster than in any other iguanian lizard studied by 2005. - **Superpower**: Grooves between its scales collect water and carry it by capillary action, even against gravity, to the corners of its mouth. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/psychedelic-rock-neo-psych/#collection", "name": "Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych Creatures", "description": "Explore all 14 animals paired with Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers.", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/psychedelic-rock-neo-psych/", "mainEntity": { "@type": "ItemList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Aardvark", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/aardvark/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "American Robin", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-robin/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Asian Giant Hornet", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-giant-hornet/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Barreleye Fish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/barreleye-fish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Bornean Orangutan", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bornean-orangutan/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "name": "Clouded Leopard", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/clouded-leopard/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "name": "Duck-Billed Platypus", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "name": "Geoffroy's Spider Monkey", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geoffroys-spider-monkey/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "name": "Gharial", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gharial/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "name": "Goat", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goat/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "name": "Koala", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/koala/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "name": "Monarch Butterfly", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/monarch-butterfly/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "name": "Red Kite", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kite/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "name": "Thorny Devil", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/thorny-devil/" } ] } } ] } ```