Looking the part and with a great psychedelic name, the Electric Prunes were among the first US garage bands to make moves. Ex-Rolling Stones producer David Hassinger claimed credit for the California band’s eerily distinctive sound, epitomised by 1966 hit ‘I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)’, after a real-estate agent friend discovered them literally practicing in a garage. Hassinger continued to magick up great psych mystery from his charges on its follow-up, co-writers Annette Tucker and Jill Jones going back to basics on the A-side’s distorted Bo Diddley stomp. This powerful B-side runs rings around it. Breezing in above a choked rhythm guitar and high lead line, Michael Weakley’s atmospheric drums set the scene for James Lowe’s wide-eyed opening gambit: “Queen Bee, give me so much honey/I never feel the sting.” While Lowe’s growing paranoia is sweetened by Dick Hargreaves’ full-bodied organ solo, a more sinister tension writhes through its second act, the seemingly wronged singer going deeper into his vortex of despair, as like a drunken and desperate priest he urges his quarry to “Confess!”