Search - Flying Saucer Attack :: Chorus

Amazing, Pure Postrock

SystemStructure | town, WA United States | 12/08/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Excellent. It's like ambient music played through LOUD ELECTRIC GUITARS. Pure, washing waves of fuzzy guitar cleanse you of all pretention and distraction. This is not music that was created for some cynical music clique or shallow style. This is amazing, formative space rock in the vein of Spacemen 3 and Minmae. Very different, original, and awesome. Drift away from the confused world into a pure realm of beauty and rockin-ness.



If you like this I HIGHLY recommend Minmae, Surface of Eceyon, Subarachnoid Space, and My Bloody Valentine. Oh yeah and you can find this out of print epic on bleep.com"

Simply gorgeous

N. Bax | Chicago, IL USA | 12/29/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I own at least 1,000 CDs and have listened to countless others, but this is easily one of my all-time favorites. FSA's sound is almost impossible to describe in words. It's at once both alien and inviting, lush and spartan, nihilistic and reaffirming. While each of their albums has much to recommend them, I feel 'Chorus', with perhaps the sole exception of 'Further', stands out as the brightest star in a constellation of excellent albums. Just listen to 'Always' once and you'll get a great glimpse of what FSA was all about, and what sort of heights they could reach. I'm not sure I can make out more than 10-12 words amidst the torrential feedback and distorted backwash, and what's there as far as vocals sounds so distant, emotionally and physically, that they may as well have been recorded over a string can phone from Mars, and yet, 'Always' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Indeed, given the right set and setting, it is positively rapturous. If there is in fact a God, I got far closer to him or her while listening to this album than I ever did in half a lifetime of church."

Rural psychedelia

John Mcgruther | Glasgow | 04/26/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Very evocative music - it sounds like waves on a shore, or floating along the tops of clouds, or a dream where you're driving alone through the wilderness.



Probably my favourite album cover, also - to me, the music sounds like the actual place depicted on the cover."