EXPLODE INTO SPACE:INHALATIONS 1998-2000
STYLE/LINK:HAWKWINDThe second volume of the story that previously started out as the ‘In Space We Trust’ album, and now continues as a further audio document of the various band line-ups since that CD was released, but it’s still not yet the official brand new studio album! So, what is it, then? It’s all previously unreleased music from a line-up of synths, guitar, bass, drums and vocals, with similar and better sound quality than the previous release. Turn it up loud and you’ll hear bass-led thunderous space-rock and some superb space-evoking electronics as the Spacehead sound becomes more defined, much of it dominated by the awesome electric bass work of Mr Dibs, who also handles the vocals and takes much of the writing credits. A couple of the tracks are quite long with space for some strong and sturdy electric bass and electric guitar work, complete with strong drumming and swooping synth backdrops, while several others are short and snappy affairs that roar through your head. A few are segued to create an uninterrupted flow within the cohesive, often explosive music, and the instrumentals feature the synthesizers more prominently, but they are always in a band context. This album flows beautifully, and with the main accent being on power and dynamics, some tracks will really blow you away. The fact that sometimes the bass is used as a lead instrument, almost relegating the guitar to a more rhythmic oriented role, will initially sound a mite strange, but stick with it, because this is becoming a quite potent brew of space-rock, in which Spacehead have their own imprint firmly and squarely implanted. So overall, in its own way, this album is a more than worthy, consistently varied, powerful and atmospheric follow-up to the well received, and now deleted, ‘In Space We Trust’ album. It is seriously fine space-rock, so it’s time to add it to your psych-rock collection and get into Spacehead now!
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Weight: 150.00 g
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