Although it was made up of a variety of eclectic moving parts, the decade of the 1960s can often feel monolithic in its influence.

The purist folk of New York's Greenwich Village and the psychedelic wildness of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene weren't strictly similar, but their abutting worlds melded together to create a broad idea of what we mean when we refer to The Sixties.

It's a testament to the indelible power of that era's influence that in 2004, the Korean folk group Sagitta would create a song like "Your Story." This airy slice of featherweight psychedelic pop pays tribute to the Summer of Love classics while remaining true to a modern perspective.

"Your Story" comes from "Hello World," an album released the same year on Beatball Records, a tiny label that errs towards jazzy, hippie-lite soft rock.

If the gently strummed chords at the song's outset don't tip you off, the opening drum fill will do the trick-- this husband-and-wife duo are revivalists, and shamelessly so.

However, as the song progresses, the listener may be faced with a nagging curiosity. Yes, this music is unquestionably a '60s pastiche. But does it truly sound like any one specific artist or song?

The answer is no, it doesn't; it indicates these influences without aping them.

It's the sound of The Sixties once-removed: like the Brian Jonestown Massacre or Beachwood Sparks, Sagitta reflect and reinterpret "the sound of the Sixties" rather than ripping off any one act.

That said, there are numerous touchstones slyly referenced throughout "Your Story." The tradeoffs between male and female vocals, culminating in a lush harmony, brings to mind a wistfully lazy version of the Mamas and the Papas. The song's aimless tambourine playing and languid guitar melody nod towards a mood one might associate with the drug culture of forty years prior.

However, it's hard to imagine something this blissfully relaxed coming from that commercially-oriented era of pop perfection.

That's not to say that Sagitta is wholly unfocused on "Your Story." The chord progression is thoughtful and unpredictable, allowing for a few well-placed modulations to keep the action moving, escorting the vocalists to new melodic spaces.

Like the song's hazy, sepia-toned music video, the music on "Your Story" is laden with nostalgia, but through a veil of displacement. Just like the video's grainy footage hints at a mysterious past, we can see that this material is from another era, but is it truly a tale from the past or just a modern retelling, an interpretive game of Telephone?

The kaleidoscopic pleasantness reaches its zenith in a vocal pile-up that suggests a wealth of multi-tracking, allowing our male and female vocalists to introduce the slightest hint of an edge to this otherwise pillow-soft affair.

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Jeff Tobias is a composer, musician and writer currently living in Brooklyn, New York. As of late, he has been studying the music of Morton Feldman and trying to make the perfect breakfast burrito.