Domino Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The Bristol-birthed experimental project of David Pearce and Rachel Brook has proven both uniquely magical and widely influential in the last two decades, and for many their haunting and elegiac sound started here, with a singles compilation that marked their first release for Domino. A hazy litany of vivid dream-states, 'Distance' may have parallels in the kosmische sound of the '70s and the celestial guitar miasmas of My Bloody Valentine, yet these were might signposts to an otherworldly destination uniquely Flying Saucer Attack's own, and it's notable that no-one has since come close to their heavenly spell their eerie sound-world weaves.

Review: David Pearce - the auteur who has always been the main protagonist of Flying Saucer Attack -has been silent for some time, and this new album comes as something of a bolt from the blue for his many admirers, who've waited fifteen years for the next opportunity to visit his beguiling pastoral soundworld. Containing nothing but his guitar, this austere yet starkly magical record could have been made by no-one else - haunting reverb-drenched melodic filigree, feedback-swathed dystopia, folk-tinged drone and celestial ambience all abound on a collection of extrapolations that prove that Pearce remains resident of a channel of inspiration far beyond the reach most all psychedelic journeymen.

Review: Bristol space rock band Flying Saucer Attack have a legacy that reaches back to the early 90s, having roamed between Domino, Drag City and VHF Records over their long and winding career. This latest album comes no less than twelve years after their last release, and it finds the band on monolithic form as their melding of drone and shoegaze styles swells outwards. At times the guitar-driven sound can feel delicate and fragile, while at others it bears down with a claustrophobic might, but it never dulls in its impact even for a band who have been doing this for more than twenty years.

Review: The Bristol-birthed experimental project of David Pearce and Rachel Brook has proven both uniquely magical and widely influential in the last two decades, and for many their haunting and elegiac sound started here, with a singles compilation that marked their first release for Domino. A hazy litany of vivid dream-states, 'Distance' may have parallels in the kosmische sound of the '70s and the celestial guitar miasmas of My Bloody Valentine, yet these were might signposts to an otherworldly destination uniquely Flying Saucer Attack's own, and it's notable that no-one has since come close to their heavenly spell their eerie sound-world weaves.