HW: Litmus

[Bill & Cynthia]

Jon Jarrett wrote:
 Having done as he suggested I strongly suggest you do similar. Not
> only is it only eleven quid[1] for 60 minutes of top-notch spacerock, but
> some people on reading Andy Garibaldi's write-up in the CD Services
> mailout might be forgiven for thinking this band were another Hawkwind
> clone. There are some moments of unmistakable derivation (perhaps we could
> say `tribute') but never delivered as Hawkwind would have delivered
> them.

I agree with Jon - go out a buy it! "Do yourself a favour," as Molly Meldrum
says.
"It is written" in the liner notes about nicking riffs etc. but hey, it
brings out a smile while listening to it.
The album certainly holds your attention.

This is actually pretty damn close to being new and exciting in my
> cynical and tattered book and though I haven't been able to buy many
> albums so far this year this must be in the running for best one, against
> Clutch's _Blast Tyrant_ and Nektar's _A Tab In The Ocean_. So buy it I
> say. The more they realise they can actually sell stuff the quicker
> they'll do the next one :-) Yours,
>                                    Jon (who will do some proper reviews
> again some day)

Last year's discovery was 7% Solution with their "All About Satellites and
Spaceships" CD. This year it's Litmus.
Exciting things await....

Cheers
Bill

>
> [1] At time of writing obviously.
> ObCD: Hawkwind - _The Best of Hawkwind_ (the Castle one)
> --
>                 Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
>     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
>   "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
>        So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
>        (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)
>