Nigeria experienced an economic boom in the 1970s, but the country was also reeling at the time from a brutal civil war in Biafra which had left millions of people dead and a whole generation traumatized. The country tried to move on, but the youth’s feelings of anger and loss came through in much of the country’s music, giving birth to a vibrant psych-rock scene. The sounds were darker, angrier, and more twisted than the highlife of the previous decade, and Decca subsidiary Afrodisia was at the center of it all. Eight out of the nine tracks (all but Lucas Tala’s “Moghie Nu Te Eka Tse Mu”) on this compilation were released by the Lagos label: the Lijadu Sisters and Igbo band Oriental Brothers International were among their biggest stars and played mostly afrobeat, highlife, and funk, only dipping into the heavier psych-rock sounds championed on this compilation, while Cameroonian singer and bass player Celestin Nyam or Lagos highschooler band Warhead Constriction were pillars of the city’s scene with their furious, fuzz-heavy sound.