Through the fantabulous emusic site, I gratefully receive 40 downloads each month, and often use the last dozen or so to experiment wildly.This time around I chose Flying Saucer Attack, no strangers themselves to wild experimentation. With a name like that, you'd imagine they'd sound like a bunch of 60s burn-outs, who are whacked out of their gourds on acid, and attempting to contact little green men using the universal language of fuzzy feedback and brain-blisterrrrrring distortion. And that's pretty much what they do sound like. Except, rather than the 60s, they come in peace from the early 90s. A group from Bristol, they were part of the "shoegazing" era along with My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Chaperhouse and suchlike. Groups that were an intergalatic spacehop away from the clever sloganeering and smarty-pants lyrics you find coming straight outta Camden today. Indeed, before they discovered their voice, modern Britrock found distortion pedals.The album I chose is self-tilted, though it's known throughout the cosmos as Rural Psychedelia. But whatever which way you dice it, this LP features some barnstorming space rock. The quiet drone of the vocals make it unobtrusive enough to listen to while working at the computer, but when turned up loud, the white noise makes you want to lie back in the sun with a joint. If you've got a job that combines those two activities, this is the album for you. Oh, and fans of early Suede will enjoy their cover of The Drowners, which wraps chronically fatigued vocals around a thrashy bleeping wall of sound. Music to watch aliens fly by.If you subscribe to emusic, you'll find the album's listening post "here.":link[link]http://www.emusic.com/album/Flying-Saucer-Attack-Rural-Psychedelia-MP3-Download/10607884.html
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