This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“My God, it’s full of stars!” marvels astronaut Dave Bownman as he confronts a black hole in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Talk about the perfect sample to open this latest disc by Hamilton’s SIANspheric, a band that put the space in space-rock like nobody else. Although their lineup is about as stable as plutonium — they’ve reportedly lost three members in four years, including a bassist who vanished mid-tour — their sound is as timeless as the universe: Endless ambient drones, solar-flare guitars, hypnotically languid melodies and slow shoegazing grooves that progress with the speed and grace of the moon. Alternately hot as a super-nova and cold as a Martian winter, these seven tracks — three remixes and some live tapes, including a molasses-thick version of Teenage Head’s Shag Shack — are a space odyssey you’ll marvel at.
