Will be released on 4zero on 20th July and distributed through cadiz.

The album contains 6 songs that reflect the fag end of the 60's U.S hippy dream but is also an amphetemine fuelled reflection of mental illness, paranoia, death visions, MK-Ultra mind control and the fine line between religious fervour and borderline insanity.

 1. SCI-FI HI-FI

God told me to do it. A higher force tapping into the DIY tin foil ariel through my broken window.

2. TEMPEL OV FLAMING YOUTH

Higher forces pick up KISS on the cellestian FM......

3. EA1729

A potent brand of LSD used by the US military.
A study of the inhalation effectiveness of agent EA 1729 (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) and its maleate salt was conducted in which retained doses ranging from 0.3 to 7.8 micron g/kg were administered to 60 military volunteers. Onset time for the effective aerosol dose is about 15 min, peak time about 1-1/2 hr, and partial recovery time about 5-1/2 hr. Full recovery requires at least 12 hr. The safety factor in man cannot be stated with certainty. If man resembles most other animals in his toxicological response, the ratio of lethal to effective dose would be very high; however, there is not direct information about lethality in man. By the aerosol dissemination technique employed the effectiveness of the aerosol route is 0.25 to 0.30 that of the oral or intravenous routes. Prior exposure to the agent does not significantly influence the numerical facility performance decrement observed when an equivalent dose is given 2 weeks later.   

4. THE LANTERN

A death letter blues. Just like Abe Lincoln

5. A FUTURE DREAM

Just like Burroughs' Western Lands. Millipedes encircle the sky and become the new deity for the rich an famous. Christianity is driven to the sewers and the vermin become the new converts. The sewer preacher attains the role as the acid Pied Piper.

6. E.V.I.L.U.S.A

"my mind will light fires in your cities" Was there a connection between Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Oswald and Chapman? Where they brainwashed by MK-Ultra like Manchurian candidates? Mentored by Herr Doktor the nazi war criminal that supposedly escaped to 
South America but may have been smuggled into the US under project paperclip?

Why is the love of Jesus more corrupt and evil than the worship of Satan? Look at the
KKK websites and they're christian fervour or the BNP and they're sunday morning worship of great British values. All love is doomed.

The song ends where we march two by two into Gurdjieff's Karnak and fuck off from this planet to find a better life amongst the stars....

SCI-FI HI-FI   


 

The lovely Mr Marco Rossi has this to say about our new album

These blokes are so deep-fried that you could serve them up alongside the battered Mars bars in a Glasgow chippie and no one would turn a hair.
That's a compliment, incidentally. Blackpool-based, Copey-endorsed 'lo-fi kraut-angst acid rock' quartet Earthling Society are now four albums down the line and well and truly immersed in their fantastical netherworld of blurred edges, shimmering glissando and cavernous lysergic echoes.
Not for them the easy route of formless, interminable space jams, though. Opener 'Drowned World' may lean on the old VU meter to winning effect, and 'Untitled' may share an inscrutable provenance with the band's kosmische heroes, but elsewhere it's all about melodious (if beautifully warped) concision. 'The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes', 'A Modest Flower' and Tenement Song' are a beautiful mix of bucolic bliss and garage raunch; like a wrist-sized stone sundial fastened with a Chocolate Watchband.

Marco Rossi

Yeah..... anyone can jam and record and make a noise, but does it mean anything?....Does it?

"A strong contender for modern psychedelic album of the year"… Hawkwind biographer, Ian Abrahams

"… an uplifting floating relaxed psychedelic acid folk thing"… Organ

"Another wonderful CD containing ten effervescent songs"… Starship Overflow's CD of the week

"A very interesting step in a new direction and quite successful"… Aural Innovations

"Give your head a treat"… Peppermint Iguana

"simply a gorgeous and expansive release"… Blogs San Diego

"a very mystical, spiritual and magnificent album… one of the best albums of the year"… Psychotropic Zone

"An excellent blend of song and free-wheeling psychedelic buccaneer spirit"… Jerry Kranitz, Roadburn

"a wilfully bedazzled tumble through bright '60s acid rock, bucolic '70s heat waves and one of the first worthwhile updates of unadulterated, melodic psych since the '80s Paisley Underground"… Jambase

"not just a good album - it was, well, how should I put it? Mind-blowing" 5/5… Progressiveworld.net

"Sink back into a beanbag, pass the joint and set the volume and bass to max"… Rock'N'Reel

*Their finest album to date"....Terrascope online

The Waterboys and Hawkwind biographer has this to say about our new release and the words are oh so wonderfull.I've seemingly overlooked Earthling Society before because this Lancastrian band have already released three albums, Albion, Plastic Jesus and the Third Eye Band, and Tears of Andromeda, none of which I've heard. So I can't really comment, from a perspective of what's gone before, on their assertion that they've left behind their more obvious spacerock leanings in order to "drink deep from the well of visionaries such as Syd Barrett, Todd Rundgren, Kevin Ayers and John Cale." What I can say is that they've released a strong contender for modern-psychedelic album of the year … if only there were such an award!

Beauty & The Beast is understated, warm and hazy psychedelia that's wrapped around some beautifully crafted songs, for the real strength of this album is, indeed, the song-writing on display here. The music, meanwhile, is twelve-string guitars, Theremin, Bazouki and Mandolins, Mellotron and Hammonds and has a late 60s upbeat vibe coupled with a fuzzy summertime flavour running through it. Tracks like 'Sundropped' and 'Valerie A Tyden Divu' really drift out on elongated instrumentals of kaleidoscopic shifting colours, trance-like and absorbing yet gentle and comforting whilst others like 'A Modest Flower' have a perfect pop-sensibility dripping through them. When the label suggests that this is a fusion of West Coast psychedelia, acid folk and Krautrock they couldn't describe it better.

I think Rock N Reel magazine have the exquisite 'The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes' on their cover mount and have therefore laid-out the album's best track for pre-inspection. But if you find that track pleasing, there are nine others waiting to be explored and it's a definite must-buy for anyone with a penchant for well-played and delightfully conceived psychedelic-pop. Very highly recommended. And while we're here, a big cheer for Dave at 4 Zero Records who is producing these beautifully put together packages (see also the Mushroom release reviewed here, and the recent Here & Now live CD Coaxed Out From Oxford). More power to him!

Nothing like a mysterious, tongue stumbling title to set the tone long before the needle hits the groove. Psychedelic UK star voyagers Earthling Society gather the gold dust of their delay obsessed, lysergic ancestors and sprinkle it liberally on music that grows forward the high-minded tradition. For many, being trippy is a Nehru jacket, a Let It Be Beatles mustache and some feedback. Earthling Society know better and have delivered their finest hour yet with album number three, Tears of Andromeda - Black Sails Against The Sky (Nasoni Records).

"Black Country Sorceror" is the kind of organic moan that steals words from your lips, a descendant of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra and Steve Hillage's dreamy best. "Miss Liberty's Morning Dew" suggests a high-spirited boogie band performing on a remote, lawless space station. "Tears/Black Sails" is a heavy g-force ride full of buckling turns and curiously smooth straightaways. In record store-ese, you could say it's The Bevis Frond meets Ash Ra Tempel. Supremely tasty elusiveness!

They break the tracks into the constituent parts of a double vinyl record with the title tune, "Lucifer Starlight" and "A song for John Donne" being side-length epics. "Lucifer" really dives down the rabbit hole with probing guitars that border on metal but retains a prog-fusion snakiness that coils around you. On its heels, "John Donne" is like the black of night giving way to the blue dawn, incremental shifts in night and day moods that drip with the slowness of minutes. After drifting amongst the stardust for a spell, they emerge into the finest bit of early Hawkwind-y prettiness, where a reverb-marinated voice sings the Universe's sadness so earnestly you won't mind that you can't make out every word. The mood is complete and tells you everything you need to know. Pathos ain't easy, and harder still to pull off musically. Earthling Society has created a genuinely stirring work that should entrance anyone who's ever lost hours to Can's Tago Mago, Pink Floyd's Ummagumma or the first few Soft Machine albums.

dennis cook...thankyou

We are proud to announce that we have made the top 10 of 2007 on the best on-line radio station in the world......

http://www.kosmikradiation.com/2007top10new.htm

It's an honour.
We couldnt possibly except this without first thanking all the people involved. I would like to thank................................................................................................ ..................................................................................................................................

The drugs.............

I was really happy to open my mailbox and find this hard to find digi-pack awaiting me. The band sent me a copy and I thank them very much for that because I really enjoy this third space rock album from extraterrestrial duo Fred Laird (all guitars, bass, voices, bouzouki, jen synthone 1000, casio, korg, flute, melodic, claves and recorder) and percussionist Jon Blacow (drums, tabla, djembe, storm drum, congas and gong)

Bubbling synths lead the way on "Wrong!" until the Hawkwind- ish outbreak occurs which are fantastic! The drumming is so crisp with some wonderful guitar. "Lucifer starlight" contains free freak-out improvisational soundscapes with some really cool guitar solos... I really like the spacey and much laid back Floydian feeling of " Black country sorcerer", "Miss Liberty's morning dew" has reserved off-key vocals and restrained guitar sections. The 20min title track and the 14 min track "A song for John Donne" are clearly the album's centrepieces with its interesting mixture of Ozric Tentacles dub psych music, 'take no aliens' rock, layers and layers synths and bits of funk music with loads of riffing guitars and tribal drumming. The guitar is very aggressive as Fred fires off some scorching solos. Even having some flute parts in one movement, these are truly progressive with each chapter developing its own mood, but adding to the whole structure, until it is crumpled up into a vortex of void...

Tears of Andromeda Black Sails Against The Sky (full title) album is not a really easy listen, especially given that the album is rather long, (approaching the 70 minutes), but should ravish everyone into unique synth-bubbling space rock with an ethnic edge.

91/100

Cosmicmasseur.