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):
This trippy U.K. outfit may only be a duo — singer Peter Astor and instrumentalist David Sheppard — but you’d never tell from their debut full-length Stars Of Super 8.
In fact, you’d never know these 13 tracks were even the work of one band, never mind two guys. Vocal tracks like Shotgun and Disney Queen have the loping slacker vibe and stoner lyrics of vintage Beck — except for the fact that they’re sung in a voice exactly like Ray Davies. And on the songs without singing, which is most of them, things get even weirder. Echoes of Fantastic Plastic Machine, Tom Waits and Gomez surface here and there, all combined into a unique gumbo that proves two heads really are better than one.
