Chorus

ジョン・ピール、ラジオ・セッションを含む7インチ・シングルとB-サイドコレクション!(1995年作品)喧騒や、仕事を忘れ、ソフトで優しいギター音に心洗われる一枚。ダブ要素の詰まった子守唄であり、クラウトロックへの賛歌。フライング・ソーサー・アタック二作目となるコンピレーション・アルバム。

Rolling Stone - 3 Stars - Good - "...droning guitars, gauzy feedback and understated vocals...exploring the melancholic beauty of the English countryside....Flying Saucer Attack temper their cosmic consciousness by blending organic folk rock and ambient passages into reverberating soundscapes..." NME - 7 (out of 10) - "...This is rock music solely inasmuch as rocks, like, don't move or make very much noise....FSA demand the active participation of the listener. Their washed-out slivers of melody and half-remembered conversations don't amount to anything unless you decide you'd like them to..." Melody Maker - Recommended - "...The trick is guitars swamped, deadened/sharpened, EQed into abstraction, frosted with feedback or dissonance or extra texture to create entirely and tantalisingly ambigious urban/pastoral, morning/evening sounds..." Rolling Stone (4/96, p.61) - 3 Stars - Good - "...droning guitars, gauzy feedback and understated vocals...exploring the melancholic beauty of the English countryside....Flying Saucer Attack temper their cosmic consciousness by blending organic folk rock and ambient passages into reverberating soundscapes..." Melody Maker (11/18/95, p.40) - Recommended - "...The trick is guitars swamped, deadened/sharpened, EQed into abstraction, frosted with feedback or dissonance or extra texture to create entirely and tantalisingly ambigious urban/pastoral, morning/evening sounds..." NME (11/25/95, p.47) - 7 (out of 10) - "...This is rock music solely inasmuch as rocks, like, don't move or make very much noise....FSA demand the active participation of the listener. Their washed-out slivers of melody and half-remembered conversations don't amount to anything unless you decide you'd like them to..."

CHORUS is the second odds-and-ends collection from Flying Saucer Attack, Bristol's premier D.I.Y. dreampop outfit. It's another solid set from these introverted home-tapers, despite the inclusion of one or two too many unfocused out-takes. FSA's formula of fragile guitar ballads and airy soundscapes completely engulfed in fuzz, distortion, tape hiss, and other lo-fi distractions remains engaging throughout. Between the pileup of spacey effects and FSA pilot David Pearce's melodic whisper, there's plenty here to appeal to lovers of psychedelic ambience both classic and recent.
The titular disturbance that ultimately consumes "Feedback Song" like a radioactive cloud also irradiates "Always". With its gossamer melody and Pearce's mellifluous folk delivery, "Light in the Evening" rises specter-like from its bed of grot. FSA's atmospheric mood pieces ("Popul Vuh III", "There but Not There", "Februrary 8th") are expectedly serene and lovely, as is the brief, shimmering closer, "There Dub". But CHORUS's real prizes are "Second Hour" and "Beach Red Lullaby", tracks originally available on a FURTHER-era seven-inch. The former is a rough dreampop diamond drowned in eddies of distortion; the latter features an all-too-rare vocal from honey-voiced FSA cohort Rachel Brook and one of the group's more exquisite acoustic melodies.|