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Brilliant fuzziness

Jose Angeles | Chazzwuzzles USA | 12/07/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"On my first listen, I was going "huh?" I was hearing this really cool psychadellic spaced-out alternative indie rock (think Porcupine Tree meets Pink Floyd meets Mogwai). But mysterious noisy static keyboard effects were layered over this music. I was wondering if the keyboard were suppose to have this much feedback. I was asking myself that question until the music grew on me. I didn't care anymore, I realized how briiliant these experimental rockers were. What sounded like a mistake was actually an elaborately structured new expression of rock music. My main beef with this album is the times when the filler tracks play. There are tracks where the band is just playing around with obscure sounds, no real melody, just a wall of noise. As for the vocals, it's kind of buried and soft spoken yet isn't boring. It's not like the singer is just blurting out a bunch of words. He puts effort in making the words flow at ease with the music and it's sort of mellow too. Beautiful haunting voice is what it is. This is an album that manages to be real calm but also crazy, the atmosphere fills with blurry fuzz. They don't call this "Flying Saucer Attack" for nothing because I felt a flying saucer was attacking the music."

Pretty cool

J. Whittaker | buffalo, ny | 10/25/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"to describe this record, one must assume that one has fallen asleep while enjoying it. completely relaxing and noisy at the same time, every chance i have to hear it, i end up drifting into a half conscious state, waking up to fininsh it off. luscious waves and noise remind me a bit of the great spacemen 3, with out the rock sensibility, but it works just fine as its own thing."