An Acid Blotter of Psychedelia - New Psychedelic Sounds to Fill Your World

First Band From Outer Space - Impressionable Sounds of the Subsonic



Riding some freakish cosmic supernova from their home planet in Alpha
Centuri to the relative safety of earth's atmosphere and the terra
firma of Guttenburg, Sweden, signed by some secret intergalactic pact
to the Transubstans label, The First Band From Outer Space
do everything humanly and extra-terrestrially possible to live up to
their name. Wildly freaked out, stoned out, spaced out
progressive/psychedelic rock, FBFOS sound pretty much like no other band I've heard in this galaxy. Fusing jazzy prog structures a la Camel with the buttressed heaviness of Hawkwind all played in stratosphere sweeping extended jams, Impressionable Songs of the Subsonic quickly went from being an oddity on the Ripple desk to a non-stop player in the Ripple stereo.



Starting off with the space ambience of "Rovaja Zemelija," the songs
quickly builds in cosmic majesty as if we're witness to the birthing of
a new star. The only vocals being the gasping cries of a newborn add to
this effect, the stark realization that we're privy to some monumental
cosmic event. From there, each song is a manifesto in prog-space rock.
Beautiful use of the flute hearkens thoughts of very early prog Jethro Tull,
while sweeping synth fills and celestial effects keep the album
floating forever free of gravity's pull. "Utan Att Veta," alternates
true spaciness with heavy '70's psychedelia. "Mean Spacemachine," is
just that, charging across the night sky in a blistering shock of jet
fueled riffing. "Impressionable Sounds," lays on the flute in inspired
moments of beauty, riding a Pink Floyd experimental
vibe, while "To Be Seen as the Underdog," brings on the acoustic
guitar, as soft and delicate as stardust. With each track clocking in
at over 5 minutes and only three shorter than eight minutes, this is an
album as vast as the cosmos, riding whichever extraterrestrial groove
they find through extended jams and improvisations. None of which fail
to achieve blast off.



Overall, an intensely beautiful, rocking, moving and definitely spacey album. God bless the solar system.



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