Groove Guide Review

Search for Bob Lazar on Google, and you won't find anything to do with his heady blend of metal riffing and prog-psych. Nor will it mention his space rock operatics that sound like the basis for most of Muses back catalogue, No, you will find stories regaling the odd goings-on at Area 51, and one man's quest to bring alien propulsion technology to the masses, rather than an English guitar teacher in Christchurch.

I would supect there might not be too much crossover from the relative demographics, but perhaps those with an interest in extra-terrestrial engines may find themselves drawn into the other Bob Lazar's World.

Tracks such as "Double Turn Double Safe" sound like Gwar covering RATM before sloping off into unfamiliar Floyd-esque territory, whilst "The Progressive Adventures of Foodstool" takes us on a journey where coin-op arcade game music is king.

Given the amount of "alternative" acts that proclaim their music sounds like no other, you would be hard pushed to find an album more elegantly skewed than this one.

Andy Ferguson

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