Release
date: September
27th
2019. Label: Riot
Season
Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Scottish
Space Race
– Tracklisting
1.Portal
20:57
2.Ursa
Major 18:23
3.Scottish
Space Race 11:54
4.The
Grizzard 24:08
Members
Tommy
Duffin
Russell
Andrew Gray
Omar
Aborida
James
T Mckay
Review
Psychedelic
Space Rock Collective – The Cosmic Dead – return with their
extremely heavy and progressive new offering – Scottish Space Race.
I will admit I’ve not been the biggest fan of these guys but even I
will admit defeat and say that this album is a sublime and noisy
affair that does everything right within the Space Rock genre.
The
album is wild and extremely inventive with the different sounds and
textures the band have included on the record. The 4 tracks on show
here are epic in every sense of the word with the shortest track
running for 12 minutes. The other songs hit around or past the 20
minute mark. So be prepared for a very lengthy affair with
Psychedelic Sounds, Loops and other cool effects The Cosmic Dead can
lay their hands on.
My
favourite songs are Portal and The Grizzard. As the band show a wild
inventive streak on these two songs and bring a whole level of noise
I wouldn’t expect from a Space Rock band. It’s not all Space Rock
grooves as the band add elements of Psych Rock, Sludge Rock and even
moments of Doom on certain parts of the album. This is perhaps the
band’s heaviest release to date and the band have added new members
with Tommy Duffin of Headless Kross fame adding a more frantic and
powerful style of drumming to The Cosmic Dead overall sound.
Will
this album be for everyone. That’s hard to say. If you’re already
a fan of the band then you’re going to lap it up. The more casual
fan may find this album very hard going but I recommend you stay the
course as you will be rewarded with a deeply engaging experience that
only The Cosmic Dead can deliver.
The
overall sound and production of the album is quite intense but it
matches the raw atmosphere that The Cosmic Dead play throughout the
album. The album can be too clever for it’s own good at times but
that’s my only complaint on an otherwise superb and highly
adventurous album.
Words
by Steve Howe
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