Watch: Jonny Trunk on Soft Psyche and Sunshine Pop

Late-sixties California, British film soundtracks and the American underground.

"It's known as a classic Sunshine Pop record 'cause the sun's shining every time it's on."

Start summer early with Jonny Trunk, founder of Trunk Records and one of the UK's finest archivists of the obscure, as he takes a deep dive into soft psyche and sunshine pop in his latest session at The Listening Room in 180 Studios.

Working through a stack of his personal records spanning late-sixties California, British film soundtracks, and the more deranged corners of the American underground, Trunk delivers an essential guided tour through one of his favourite sounds.

Featuring Elephant's Memory, Silver Apples, the Monkees' Head, the Holy Mackerel (featuring a pre-fame Paul Williams), Jane Mansfield with an uncredited Jimi Hendrix on guitar, Sun Forest, Wendy & Bonnie, Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends, the Electric Prunes, and more.

Highlights also include a listen to Elephant's Memory's Old Man Willow — a track Trunk traces back to a 1983 charity shop in Winchester and his first encounter with the film Midnight Cowboy — as well as the Silver Apples' oscillator-driven Program, a psychedelic detour through the Monkees' notorious film Head (co-written, he reminds us, by a clearly unhinged Jack Nicholson), and the deceptively blissful Paisley Window Pane by Wendy and Bonnie.

Jonny Trunk's Soft Psyche and Sunshine Pop Listening Session was recorded at 180 Studios, London, on the Devon Turnbull sound system. Watch the full session above.