Phil Howitt

Labelled “totally unmusical,” the free-spirited bandleader found a path from attic tapes to latest album Harmonic Mind

The most stable line-up in the band’s six-decade history have completed their first trilogy, with new spiritual insight and an old but well-loved guitar style borrowed from Syd Barrett

The seeds of The Wilde Flowers have taken root all around the world. Here are just a handful of 21st-century musicians taking inspiration from the 60s and 70s