It
has been many years since I heard a new Astralasia record but this is quite
different from the more commercial stuff the band was doing when I last heard
their material. This album features two long and two short instrumental tracks
and two shorter tracks. It also comes with an additional 7” record with two 7
min tracks. The first track is very dreamy with a repetitive synth line. There
is some guitar that comes in as well but it is almost entirely synth based.
Track 2 has a long build but then drums (computer) and some nice guitar kick in
as the tempo, which was built on a slow bass drone, is thrown to the side and a
cool track develops, but is still mainly synth based. It eventually ends after
15mins with some acoustic guitar and synth drones. The third track, features
some really cool space guitar, ala Steve Hillage style, amongst a sea of
floating synths and simple programmed beats. Beautiful… Track 4 has a pretty
psychedelic start and is very dreamy and floating with a lot of stuff happening
as it starts to grow (real flute or synthesizer?)… As this track grows, there
is some really cool slide guitar with delay played to compliment the computer
drums and synths. There is some lightly sung stuff going on under some windy
static towards the end of this track as it gets quite strange. Next are the two
tracks from the 7” record. This is the desert starts with some beautiful piano
and harmonica to set the mood. This is a super cool track with some great
guitar as well. The flip side again features some great spacey delay guitar and
is the most uptempo or close to what you could say rock track on the record
with what sounds like real bass although it is probably also done with
computers like the drums. A pretty cool release.
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