At the height of the mid-1990s Britpop craze—with Blur and Oasis trading insults
and taking on the world—Kula Shaker appeared on the scene looking like they'd
time-travelled from one of The Beatles' late 1960s trips to India. All
side-burns, flares and sitars, their jangly indie pop drew on psychedelia,
Eastern philosophy and spiky garage rock and found instant success when single
"Tattva" shot to Number 4 in the UK charts. Led by Crispian Mills (son of
actress Hayley Mills and grandson of Sir John Mills), their follow-up "Hey Dude"
went to Number 2 before debut album K (1996) to...