The Aliens
Astronomy For Dogs
Decent debut from this new outfit teaming w ex-Beta Bandistas John Maclean and Robin Jones with BB founding member, and later Lone Pigeon, Gordon Anderson.
Locates most of the space rock/bit of bleepy beats/sampledelica zones you'd expect, with the BB two tightening up LP's lo-fi tendencies to make the whole thing a lot more poppy and concise than his solo meanderings; always filed him under "enjoyable/could do w some quality control" really.
Opener Setting Sun is a much more straight-out rocker than the prospect of these guys getting together would suggest; Robot Man enters more of the expected terrain; I Am The Unknown is where they hit their stride.
Feels more like a continuation of the Beta sound than King Biscuit Time's more hip hop-styled work; in a similar way, it's good to hear a guitar band who realise it's fun to use samplers in 2007. And anyone inspired by "Sergio Leone and Serge Gainsbourg, Brian Eno and Brian Wilson, Larry David and Ol' Dirty Bastard" is all right by us.
Links
aliens site
robot man video
aliens my space
Tags
9th Jan 2007 - Tumblr
3.5