Did I tell you about the one-eyed German called Annette who modelled for Mercedes? Anyway, she was a huge fan of The Telescopes. You might say a completist which isn't bad going when you consider this is their eighth album. Lucky for her they stopped releasing between 1992-2000 I guess?
They are calling this their most song based output for sometime but you could still file it happily away in the 'noise' section. It is interesting to note the similarities between this release and the recent release by Loop (25 years after the last one) bearing in mind they shared a split single right back in the very beginning. The covers could be by the same artist and both albums are quite short and structured in a similar way. A few short tracks and then a whacking great long one to finish with. How strange.
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'You Know The Way' is really the dirge. Propelled by zombie drums, vocals that conjure images of the dead howling in purgatory and screeching feedback from guitars played by bones. 'Absence' is VU/Spacemen 3/early Spiritualized. It drones, it crawls, it hypnotises. 'In Every Sense' hits everywhere all it once.
Lots of people would say what is the point of this music? What they don't understand is, people like having their mind fucked with. In every sense The Telescopes have created a majestic track. 'Don't Bring Me Round' is classic free noise and then 'The Living Things'...well I don't know what to say about it, other than it is stonkingly good.
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