Further

I adore this album... Was very pleased to see that it was on vinyl here on Amazon, and the record sounds pretty amazing. This album is so unique... It has this calm folk sound throughout, but on some songs the calmness is met ever so gently with violent noise, for example the song Come and Close My Eyes. But the whole album is very spacey, it's really beautiful music to listen to at night. If you live in a mountainous area like I, go drive up a canyon late at night. Park somewhere with a good view, and play this album while looking at your view, or if you have a sunroof, look at the stars. Don't be afraid to turn up the volume either. It's a wonderful experience of an album, especially if you play it in certain settings.... Fantastic stuff here.

probably FSA's finest moment - where whispered lo-fi folk meets ambient guitar drone. every time i listen it takes me back to the first time i heard it - under the influence and hypnotised. beautiful.

Mixing both heavily distorted and rustically acoustic guitar passages on a number of "Further's" tracks, Dave Pearce arrived at the quintessential Flying Saucer Attack sound on his second full-length release. Nowhere is this more apparent than on tracks three and four, "Come and Close My Eyes" and "For Silence", where this blend unites feedback sounding like the gentle roar of the of the white noise channeled throughout the universe and the wistful, contemplative, fluid progression of plaintively struck notes on an unamplified guitar and creates the true essence of rural psychedelia that Pearce was attempting to isolate on FSA's first self-titled release. It's both vast and intimate at once, with a timeless, meditative, organic flow to it. Although his vocal range is limited, the warmth of Pearce's voice and simple cadence of his delivery serves to complement the expansive feeling almost every song achieves.I generally recommend "Further" as an entry point into Flying Saucer Attack, as it's probably the most perfect distillation of the band's sound. If you like what you hear on this release, pick up their singles collections "Distance" and "Chorus" afterward. Both manage to each have their own cohesive sound, despite containing material not originally linked together in date or in order of composition. I can't add anything more to this review than what others commenting on "Further" have already said; it's an essential, must-own CD for anyone who appreciates deeply introspective, well-crafted, guitar-driven atmospheric music.

Flying Saucer Attack - Further (1995)Some people might think Flying Saucer Attack sounds like a campy joke name for a band. But put on FURTHER, turn off the lights, and the joke isn't funny anymore. The first track sounds like an actual alien invasion with unsettling guitars that wail like sirens while thunder and other disturbing noises add to the effect.FSA have created some of the finest guitar atmospherics ever recorded and FURTHER is their best, most consistent album. The walls of sound full of endless echo and otherworldly guitar textures are truly mind-blowing. But the album also features lovely acoustic guitars and gentle vocals which provide intriguing contrasts as well as the underlying heart of most of these tracks.Some may find the guitars to be overwhelming and the songs to be not so melodic, but if you have a taste for this sort of thing they're absolutely astounding, mysterious and beautiful. It's true that the ominous opening cut is more or less strictly atmospheric as is the 12 minute "to the shore" which features shimmering cymbals, treated tablas and other effects which serve to compliment those intensely trippy guitar sounds. Clearly, the emphasis here is on atmosphere, and it compares favorably to anything heard in the dream pop, space rock or shoegazing realms. Highly recommended.

It's hard for me not to engage in hyperbole when talking about Flying Saucer Attack. Each of their albums reaches a very deep place that no other music, including classical, comes close to. This is David Pearce's most beautiful album, so beautiful that it's very difficult for me to listen to. As someone once said "The problem with beauty isn't finding it, it's bearing it." Other reviews of this album stress it's greater reliance on acoustic instruments and more conventional melodies than their first album. Maybe so, but the conventional melodies are unspeakably beautiful and like nothing I've ever heard before, and they tend to be nestled in as awesome a bed of ecstatic, shimmering noise as anything in fsa's catalog. "She is the Daylight" ends the album, after the three more intense pieces that proceed it, on a note of wistful tenderness that might remind you of what it really felt like when you first fell in love. Somebody, please play this at my funeral.

"Thanks to all escpecially those who understand." The most existentialistic, surreal record that I own. Acoustic contrasted to apocalytic electric "sheets of sound" similar to what Coltrane was trying to do (?) only in the language of pure electric instrumentation. In my opinion David Pearce is one of the greatest electric guitarists of all time, that we will ever hear. Incomparable style, more organic than My Bloody Valentine, more sensible than Medicine, more chaotic that The Verve. My singular inspiration, forget the rest of rock 'n roll. Organic contrasted to electric, night contrasted to the pure light of day. I am still scarred to listen to the first track when I am alone in the room. This record is oddly spiritual, erriely existential. The very finest "noisepop" electric guitar that we will ever hear? How does he make those sheets of unadulterated pure noiseful melodies? Some things are better left a mystery, left unsaid. This is the best rock 'n roll record that I own.

all well

Very good buy. Exactly as described.

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