SPACE FOR THE EARTH

It's a consequence of Ozric Tentacles' very gradual musical evolution (which never entirely loses sight of their roots, even as the shift to more electronics and a more studio-based, pristine production has taken place) that just as there are some albums which seem to push their sound to new heights, there's other albums which just qualify as "business as usual", whatever that happens to imply at the relevant point in their career.

With the album prior to this, Technicians of the Sacred, being one of those albums which pushes the Ozrics sound a little further, the odds always were that Space For the Earth would turn out to be a "business as usual" album; that it ended up emerging during the COVID pandemic more or less guaranteed it. For Ozrics fans who wanted some new material, it was doubtless good for morale during that difficult time, but the end result is an album which I won't skip past if it comes on shuffle, but I'm unlikely to purposefully put on very regularly.