Music: Space Rock
Country: The United Kingdom
Web site: www.myspace.com/litmusspacerock
Litmus paper is used as a Ph gauge to determine the amount of acidity in a substance. The word litmus is a fitting band name for a group that creates music best heard on acid. The heavy space rock found on the U.K. bands second album, Planetfall is a kaleidoscope of cosmic effects supported by hard-driven guitar licks. Their use of echoing vocals, guitar peddles, and synthesizer bestows a hallucinatory quality to the album, possibly producing the same type of sounds Timothy Leary subjected upon hippie youth during his LSD experiments. Planetfall is cerebral in the interplay of sound, calling for several listens to recognize and appreciate each instrument.
Various bleeps, blips, and swooshes implant visions of UFOs, swirling electric storms, and other Sci-Fi concepts. Most songs contain the conventional rock format, although supplemented with trippy electronic noise. The singers heavily British accented voice falls somewhere between David Bowie, Roger Waters and Adam Agius of ALCHEMIST. LITMUS music also recalls PINK FLOYD and ALCHEMIST on such songs as the title track and Tempest.
The tranquil, acoustic guitars and vocal flow align well with PINK FLOYD, while the up-tempo and alien vibe of the synthesizers bear a strong resemblance to Alchemist. LITMUS understands how to write a good, conventional rock song; still, the bands greatest strength is during the moments of experimentation, which the band always returns to after a couple minutes relatively standard, verse-chorus lines. Under the Sign is a space rock odyssey, clocking in at over fifteen minutes of chugging guitar rhythms, killer solos, and the band creating enough cosmic noise to form a new galaxy.
ALCHEMIST and PINK FLOYD appear in a few places than the HAWKWIND and early MONSTER MAGNET-like sections. Fans of the above-mentioned groups, fans of fuzzy-toned biker rock (fuzzy bikers, too) and fans of psychedelia in general should check out Planetfall. If Planetfall were a sheet of acid, you would need only one hit. This is some potent shit!
note: 8/10
Tracklist
1. Destroy The Mothership
2. The Tempest
3. Lost Stations
4. Under The Sign
5. Planetfall
6. Psychic Projection
7. Singularity
8. Helios
9. Expanding Universe
10. The Machine Age
11. Far Beyond
12. Planetfall/SETI
Line-up
Anton – swooshes, bleeps and twiddly noises
Fiddler – guitar and vocals
Marek – drums and vocals
Martin – bass and vocals
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