Genre: Space Rock / Prog
Track Listing:
8 Untitled Tracks
Picking this album up from the table I literally said "what is this piece of shit?" I readily admit I was in a bad mood and prepared to take it out on some poor musician's pathetic attempt at making worthwhile music. After about 25 seconds of listening to this album however, all that was changed. Suddenly I found myself dancing around the apartment in complete hippie mode.
Let's start with the packaging. It's crap. The packaging is competely unfitting and superfluous. It has no information whatsoever, beyond the bandname. No track listing, no nothing. No liner notes (most assholes don't bother to read them anyway so what the hell...). Dispense with the cover, throw it away, listen to the tracks instead. Cos fact is, this album doesn't need a cover. It's actually not an album at at, it's a time machine contained on a single silver disc.
It's like this: imagine a cross between Can, Pink Floyd - in the most spaced out era and Spirit's Mister Skin on drums and the occasional SPK member knocking down the wall, and you have it. This is space rock at its finest.
Considering the shit people call rock'n'roll today I'm ecstatic upon discovering bands like this one. People who can play their instruments and really ride the wave this well are few and far between.
The albums sounds like it could very well be improvised directly on disc in a studio, but the press release leads me to believe it's actually some sort of best of compilation. Hard to tell though, and the result sounds like a really well made album. The tracks are mostly instrumental and quite long. The seven tracks comprise over 70 minutes all together. They are also exceptionally dynamic, shifting between hard drive rock music, flipped out passages of chaos and melodic space journeys. Tracks four and six are the best tracks of the album, and very representative of the range. While track four is a mellow piece with a lot of keyboards and melancholic moods, track six is classic heavy space rock.
Everything is well played, well produced, perfectly balanced and really dynamic. And everything is so space out I expect Stacia to come dancing into my kitchen any moment, wearing nothing but a golden face mask, rainbow colored paint and a red velvet cape. Not a dull moment at all. It is rare that I hear a record this long and complain that it's too short.
It's really sad that this release is so limited. It's too good to end up not being heard by more than 1000 people. It deserves a wider audience, and real space rock fans should go out of their way to
obtain it.
When the album is over, that is the time machine has transported me back to 2009 I feel let down. Where are the silver jump suits, the faces covered in red cake makeup with golden discs on the forehead? 2009 can never be as great as the future space rock promised us, but atleast we have records like this one to take us back to a time when the future was great.
