THTX

Here we have twelve songs sounding rough, unpolished - overdubbed though because THTX basically consists of only two members, Kerry Gluckman on drums and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Smith. He alone plays guitar, bass, organ plus trumpet and is also responsible for the rare vocals. Space rock is defenitely a suitable label for this music - the unique note anyhow comes from the special krautrockish and avantgarde flavour here and there.

The title song represents their spacey origin as no other - a highlight as it may be expected. Provided with multiple guitar tracks - electric and acoustic - this is totally improvised for the basic recording I would say - the overdubs though are perfectly added with intent. At least for this song the band has the support of an additional bass player. Soaring guitars all over - this is really nicely meandering and floating - quite melodic with synthesizer support. Osidias now shows them turning into another more krautrocked/ethno direction for the first time with trumpet and organ. Ultraviolet Twilight is a challenge really - weird - provided with electronically deformed drum playing - experimental by all means - and a very gripping thing over the course of time.

Collective Mind Anarchy - what title could be more suitable? - turns back to the good old spacey behaviour and makes out a grooving wild anarchic song. 'I did not choose it' - this time they even reinterpret the VDGG song Darkness (11/11) - nice - it comes rather similar to the original - okay - disregarding the guitar maybe. One of the rare songs which shows vocals by Matthew Smith. Once Before In The Future is my favourite song so far - space rock provided with so much feeling, melancholy and melody - wow!

'The Flickering Sky' holds a lot of experiments and suspense - a typical grower - the more I listen the more I'm fascinated in the meanwhile. There's a lot to examine most certainly - recommended!