Music Reviews

Roads to Space Travel

Before, Before Now

DeSoto

Bringing sub-Kraut-rock to kids who have no clue about Kraut-rock (American or otherwise), Roads to Space Travel presents two songs in the mode of Can-via-the Fall-via-the Monorchid, with a vocalist who bears a strong semblance to Peter Gabriel in his Genesis days, to boot. A bit “mathy,” for sure, the grooves contained therein are locked enough to produce a mildly hallucinatory effect, but stretch this out ten more minutes and they may be on to something even more delicious. Forgive them, but these guys are American, you know.

DeSoto Records, P.O.Box 60335, Washington, DC 20039; http://www.his.com/~desoto/


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