Scotland’s supernatural phantasm, The Aliens, are former Beta Band co-founder Gordon Anderson (lead vocals, guitar), John Maclean (keyboards, backing vocals) and Robin Jones (drums, backing vocals) plus a few others helping on bass and guitar.
I’ve been highly enjoying the new Aliens album, Luna (Birdman Records). As I’ve written before, I’m a huge Beta Band and Lonely Pigeon fan. The 2007 album was divine, the tour was even better, and I’m more than psyched the new Aliens band has a second album.
You need no more evidence that Gordon Anderson’s certifiable musical genius is still untreated than the first track on Luna, “Bobby’s Song,” which is a loveable pop-psych-musical-thought-freakout clocking in at 10 minutes.
My favorite track is “Billy Jack,” an epic 10 minute track that abuts five different songs into one to explore and exploit every emotion ever labeled.
Very little of this album is radio-ready, thank God, although I could see stations like The Current playing “Magic Man” or “Boats.” Fans of Syd Barrett, Sgt. Pepper, Dungen and Australian noise rock are going to love this.
Here’s the new video for “The Sunlamp Show” (via Stereogum)
Download it here:
The Aliens : “Sunlamp Show” (mp3)
The Aliens have also released “Sitting On A Toadstool,” a free non-album track, you can get here:
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