Space Weather - Low Earth

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 04 Mar, 2010.

Space Weather is a 3 piece project featuring the talents of Andrew Paine. 'Low Earth' is their second "voyage" into the realms of deep cosmic progressive drone. With the odd low-end synth squelch, this begins its journey based on gently shifting buzzing tones and atmospheric textures; the second track "The Harrowing" being a slice of irresistible kosmische action with the ponderous bass and searching, drifting keys bringing to mind the recent work of Emeralds. Halfway in, we're in Eno/Cluster territory, icy synths swirling around exploratory minimal guitar strokes. Towards the end we're in tentative ambient country, the threat of being eaten by a stingray on the edge of a coral reef seems so much nearer as I'm listening to 'A Brief Swansong'. The closer is suitably languid & soothing bringing this great little collection of extra-terrestrial tunesmithery to a most satisfactory climax!

"'Low Earth', the eagerly-awaited second album by Scottish astral voyagers, Space Weather, is released on 1 March 2010 again on the band’s own label, Space Weather Recordings (BwbW 02).

Following on from last year's eponymous debut, the trio of Alistair Crosbie (electric guitar), Brian Lavelle (synthesizer) and Andrew Paine (electric bass guitar) build upon the strengths of that earlier stellar outing to create a darker, more dense album in 'Low Earth', which is truly progressive in nature.

The album is limited to 100 copies only and comes in a pro-printed colour sleeve with pro-duplicated colour disc-print."

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