Music Reviews

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Artist: S.P.O.C.K. (@)
Title: The Best Of The Subspace Years
Format: CD
Label: Artoffact (@)
Rated: *****
Artoffact wisely thought that the time for setting US coordinates of the starship which carries this funny Swedish synth pop band mainly inspired by Star Trek saga (but there are many references to other notorious sci-fi movies as well - is ripe, so that SPOCK - acronym for Star Pilot On Channel K! - come out from their capsules to spread their music in the States with this limited deluxe edition, which includes 19 of their most successful tracks, including some authentic club hits such as "Dr.McCoy" (if you followed Star Trek you should know who's this character), "Klingon 2000", "Alien Attack", "E.T. Phone Home", "Not Human", "All The Children Shall Lead" and many more. The circulation of bizarre and somewhat odd theories about human origins, alien role in the development and building of civilization and technology, fake religions or conspirational theories (think about David Icke's list of alien races such as Reptilians or Greys, Church of SubGenius, Illuminati and other subcultures which argue some external intervention, which could explain the collapse of human civilization and its spread over Internet during last years, particularly in times when the discrepancies between people needs and policies adopted by governmeents are getting so wide that someeone could believe they came from some malevolent alien race!) will make the understanding of the caustic and amazing irony of S.P.O.C.K.'s songs and lyrics whereas the evergreen liking for synth-pop (it's so evergreen that Depeche Mode still manages to fill arenas even when they issue mediocre releases), which this Swedish guys wondrously interprets by adding some piquancy with a considerable dosage of irony, meaningful vignettes and nice sounds as well, is going to facilitate rocket-propelled dances engineered by these lads.


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