UNKNOWN SPECIES

The Spacelords immediately sends me back to Black Moon Circle for its Psychedelic Spacelord ', haunting psyche rock! A German trio created in 2008 with traditional percussion rhythms, psychedelic and mantra sounds, a 7th album.

"F.K.B.D.F." opens with a bewitching, hypnotic sound, agreed, with bass and psychedelic synth; you forget how it started, the rhythm, the metronomic riffs complete this feeling of a spatial mantra title. 'Unknown Species' on a bass that The Cure would not have denied in their dark wave period, fluid tunes à la Pink Floyd and you get on board with keyboard layers reminiscent of Tangerine Dreams. It's heavy, snarling, greasy, slimy; halfway through I feel the vibrations of a Black Sabbath at the top of his game. The final intensifies the guitar vibrations with maestro. Acoustic guitar 'Time Tunnel entry, tide present, bucolic sweetness; you have to wait a bit to get the psyche stoner climb. At 1/3 it bursts just enough to put the last latecomers into a trance on a Lemmy-style bass, it then squirts like the Pink Floyd psyche-era solos; halfway through oriental sounds can make you dream then we pass the 4th and it explodes in terms of sound on a beautifully crafted stoner psyche with reverberation and overloops. Abrupt final just to wake up with the accompanying wind this time. An explanation of the 3 tracks is better than trying to discern what their music is made of I think.

The Spacelords is there to immerse yourself in a musical journey like with the Hawkwinds; they're not for people who settle for a 3-minute switchable title; they offer powerful basic lines where guitars swirl between psyche and space rock of the late 60's. It's simple but effective, it's mesmerizing and catchy, kudos to Hazi, Akee and Marcus for keeping the sound going.