Robyn Hitchcock released a memoir earlier this year, and it is characteristically esoteric and precise in its framing. In 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, Hitchcock confines his autobiographical recollections to the year in the title, when he was attending Winchester College and deeply immersing himself in the pop music of the era. With the shimmery tunes of that time clearly on his mind, Hitchcock took the most natural course of action by recording a covers album that serves as a proper companion to his book.

“Itchycoo Park” is the first single from that album, 1967: Vacations in the Past. Joined by Kimberley Rew, one of his bandmates from the Soft Boys, Hitchcock strums and croons through the soaring psychedelia on the song with an easy assurance that makes it feel like it sprung straight from his own wonderfully whirring mind. Comfortable old shoes don’t even fit this well.

1967: Vacations in the Past is scheduled for release in September.