Strange
things are happening in Connecticut………..landing mid-June on El Paraiso Records’
Impetus imprint is the new record from….err….Landing. Mixing an organic blend
of rock instrumentation and analog electronics, Landing have specialized in a
mild and rural kind of psychedelia over the course of nearly two decades and
despite releasing one brilliant album after another the band remains criminally
underappreciated. Perhaps because the trips Landing are taking are too
distanced from the hipster's version of Krautrocky drone music. Recent releases have seen them closer to
post-punk and shoegaze territory than ever, but Third Sight, recorded
specifically for the Impetus series, builds on the
hallucinatory soundscapes of the band's earliest days. Third Sight consists of
four long tracks of warm washes of blissed out ambience/psychedelia…….think Eno
and Bardo Pond playing mind chess while tripping and you would not be far off
the mark…….as Landing blend old school, fluttering Electronica which brings to
mind Eno’s best collaborations in the 1970s with the fuzzy, more experimental
Drone Rock from American East Coast scene.
Opening with
the epic ‘Delusion Sound’, Landing channel the hazy narcotic somnolence of
Spacemen 3 which then dissolves into an almost pastoral sound sketch with
languid guitars and static filled glitch Electronica blurring the lines between
Post Rock and Psychedelia as the track unhurriedly winds down. Both beautifully
economic but sonically expansive at the same time, Landing explore the aural
landscape of Krautrock, Drone Rock, Psych Folk and Psychedelica to stunning
effect……..taking inspiration from such diverse bands as Unwound, Tar, Cocteau Twins, Flying Saucer
Attack, Harmonia, Spacemen 3, Cluster and Lush, there's a unique sense of motoric
drift to these four pieces, Landing’s psychedelia possesses a rare timelessness,
listening through this record is likely to stimulate mental images of rural
winds blowing across vast American fields of grass, bonfires, blue rivers and
power lines sailing through rolling hills. ‘Third Site’ has the feel of early
70s Krautrock pioneers Harmonia with primitive electronics gently pulsing
underneath a soundscape of luscious sweeping guitars and synths while coming in
at under the 5 minute mark is ‘Facing South’ is a beautiful guitar piece reminiscent
of Michael Brook’s ‘infinite guitar’ compositions which serves as an interlude
before Third Sights massive closing track kicks in. On ‘Morning Sun’ everything
comes together perfectly, creating a magnificent composite of dense Drone Rock,
Electronica, left-field experimental Shoegaze and abstract Krautrock which
sees Landing right at the top of their game………..as someone wiser than us said “the
whipper snappers these days, trafficking in similar sounds, have NOTHING on
their sonic elders. Dreamy, droney, poppy, psychedelic, electronic perfection!”.
Third Sight is a 40 minute soak in a warm bath of sonic bliss………an absolutely wonderful
record.
Released on
17/6/16 Third Sight is available to pre-order now from the El Paraiso Records
web shop either on green vinyl or silver CD. Landing’s mind blowing new record
will also available from your favourite vinyl emporium if you ask nicely and in
the USA via Forced Exposure ……….check it out people.
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