Music for Psychedelic Therapy

On 2 September 2021, Jon Hopkins announced the release of his sixth studio album, along with the first single "Sit Around The Fire".[14]

Of the single, which features collaborations by East Forest and Ram Dass, Hopkins said:

"Sit Around The Fire" exists from one of the deep synchronicities that ushered this thing (Music for Psychedelic Therapy) into being. I was contacted by East Forest, who had spent some time with Ram Dass in Hawaii before he passed. He was given access to several lesser-heard talks from the 70s, and asked to set them to music. He sent me some starting points, including the beautiful choral vocals he recorded which open the piece. I put my headphones on and with Ram Dass' voice inside my head, I sat at the piano and improvised. What you hear is the first thing that came out - it just appeared in response to the words."[15]

Music for Psychedelic Therapy was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79 based on 13 reviews.[6] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the release a 7.5 out of 10 based on a critical consensus of 14 reviews.[5]

All tracks are written by Jon Hopkins except where noted. All tracks are produced by Hopkins.

• Music therapy
• Psychedelic therapy