Teenage Filmstars led by Edward Ball produced some of the most far-out modern psychedelia (that is far-out and still being listenable) in the 80s and early 90s. This album was their return in 1992 after playing as The Times throughout much of the 80s and the first of several recorded for Creation. With My Blood Valentine's noise revolution still fresh at the time Teenage Filmstars took it to a whole new place i.e. backwards. Teenage Filmstars late in their career recorded much of their songs backwards resulting in an anarchic often chaotic but also so often fantastic psychedelic indie rock sound.
We're not quite there yet but on this album we are already into space territory such as "Loving" with its grinding guitar mantra which erupts into acid heaven. Often the sound is messy such as on "Love is blue" which sounds like two different songs interfering with each other on a badly tuned radio, but from the mess a magic comes. "Kaleidoscope" starts off fairly conventionally and standard rock and roll before deconstructing into what appears to be a space battle between the different instruments.
Its unpredictable, difficult, baffling, brilliant, annoying and wonderful about 700 times per second. It sounds a bit like aliens trying to replicate the strange sounds they hear coming from outer space millennia ago from far off Earth. In thousands of years time on Epsilon Eridani all music will be like this.
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