Labels: Riot Season
Review by: Captain Fidanza
A band from Fleetwood featuring Mick Fleetwood on drums “” interesting.
Earthling Society make brilliant space music, by which I don’t mean they sound like Hawkwind, but that the music is characterized by lots of circular drum patterns and synthesized whooshing noises and some of the songs go on for fifteen minutes. In short, the music which Mick Fleetwood’s new outfit make is excellent and pleasantly reminiscent of The Cosmic Dead in all their fuzzed-out glory.
Occasional spectral vocals do little to temper the otherworldly atmosphere, bringing to mind that piece in Ulysses 31 where the computer says in that terrifying voice, “Ulysses, the way back to earth has been wiped from my memory banks.”
All in all I was suspecting far less from Mick Fleetwood, as I’m not a big fan of the blues-rock inspired AOR gubbins he made throughout the 1970s and 80s, but well done to him for moving back to his hometown, reuniting with his old pals and composing these spiraling hymns to the intergalactic traveller in all of us.
Recommended unreservedly.