from the LP Distance, Domino Recording Company, 1994Lying somewhere out in the ether between the psychedelic, noise, and shoegazer scenes was Flying Saucer Attack (FSA), a duo from Bristol, England. Their music ranges quite a bit in intensity and focus, and this track is fairly representative of only one kind of theme they worked at. Taken to its logical yet extreme end, the shoegazer aesthetic really consisted of three primary tools: 1) skull-splitting layers of distorted guitars, 2) underlying pop-friendly melodies, and 3) words which are mostly spoken or hummed rather than being sung proper; whether FSA liked the label or not, if the shoe fits…I apologize for that awful pun. At any rate, if you pushed Dave Pearce’s singing any further to the back of this mix he would disappear altogether, but the sonic assault upfront is enough for me, transfixing my mind and body into paralyzed bliss.
