Flying Saucer Attack - Chorus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Something thought lost forever re-enters your life. How do you respond? How do you even begin to negotiate the vortex of mixed emotions whipped up by such a reappearance? The world shifts sideways. Logic is confounded. The uncanny takes a hold. West Country feedback outfit Flying Saucer Attack are a case in point. In recent years it's become clear that the Bristol based group were prescient to a considerable degree. The amplified pastoralism of the group and it's various offshoots might have seemed out of step with the times during it's initial emergence at the height of Britpop, but the rural has since emerged as a rich source of inspiration for numerous artists in the fields of experimental rock and electronic music. Enter Instrumentals 2015. Comprised of 15 fresh DAVE PEARCE solo performances recorded in characteristically lo-fi manner on tape and CD-R, Instrumentals 2015 is an album that will appeal both to FSA diehards and those wholly unfamiliar with the outfit's recorded output. The 15 tracks present an impressionistic narrative which transports the listener through the excoriating dronescapes and rueful introspection of the album's early pieces to the more redemptive cadences of it's closing half. Given it's sense of momentum, maintained through Pearce's thoughtful sequencing, this is an album that should be experienced in it's entirety, the better to appreciate it's deliberate emotional arc.

Vinyl LP pressing. First ever US vinyl of the second album by Bristol's Flying Saucer Attack. This edition of the LP is produced in full collaboration with FSA/Dave Pearce. Originally released on VHF as a compact disc at the end of 1994, this was the second FSA album, compiling five tracks from impossible-to-get seven-inches with twenty minutes of previously unreleased (and good) material. Similar in blend to the band's first LP, the songs hang together as a collection that improves on the individual singles. The two proper singles that make up half of Distance - InchSoaring HighInch / InchStanding StoneInch and InchCrystal ShadeInch / InchDistanceInch were instant collectables upon their , so this album was compiled to make the songs permanently available. InchSoaring HighInch and InchCrystal ShadeInch are jagged bits of fuzzed-out pop genius; tracks like the mutant concrete InchtechnoInch of InchDistanceInch and the two lengthy glissando workouts on InchOceansInch and InchOceans IIInch offset the more conventional tunes, upping the overall impact as a whole album.