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| Flying Saucer Attack's music still sounds as fresh and exciting to me as the day I first heard 'Feedback Song' on the John Peel show in 1994. There is no other "band" that I can think of that can still achieve this for me over an equivalent period of time, and I have absolutely no idea why I can stick something of theirs on to listen to and be completely swept away again for the millionth time. Flying Saucer Attack subtitled their first LP "Rural Psychedelia", but I'm sure this doesn't help describe what they're at. Apart from the more acoustic, folky, pieces the music normally rattles around the higher frequencies and is pretty sparse and freeform invariably involving a fair share of feedback and white noise with little or no bass and percussion. What melodies there are, normally come from Dave Pearce's tentative, breathy vocals buried deep within it all. I'm crap at trying to describe music to people - sorry. When I refer to fsa as a band, you will notice I use the term in inverted commas as "they" are / were really Dave on his own with the odd collaborator - see "How to play FSA" above. As a member of the FSA internet newsgroup it has often been interesting and enlightening when Dave has answered e-mails personally or updated us on his thoughts and activities, though after a period where members had compared the last album "mirror" unfavourably against earlier work, Dave informed us that he was calling a halt to FSA or at least dropping the name. Since then a retrospective live album has appeared entitled "p a blues" as has an excellent new album / project under the moniker "Clear Horizon" This is my attempt to tie up a few bits and pieces from the internet, though for a more detailed discography and "band" history, I would recommend the official website, but it now appears to be defunct, instead there's the fsa faq which contains virtually the same info. I apologise for the hap-hazard nature of the pages amalgamated here, but they were just added on as I un-earthed the material, so they're in no particular order. Dave Serjeant - April 2002 (updated slightly October 2004) |