OFF: DarXtar (was: Circle US tour (with Cul de Sac))

[Stephan Forstner]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:16:53 +0000, Jonathan Jarrett 
<jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:07:18PM -0800, Keith Henderson typed out:
>>   ObCD: Darxtar - We Came Too Late
> I've been wondering about that ever since I saw it, somewhat to
>my surprise, in stonerrock.com's mail-order catalogue. How does it
>compare to _Tombola_? Because that's an album I'm still trying to get my
>head around... Interested in your impressions, yours,
>            Jon

I've only listened to WCTL once, but first impression is that it's much 
easier to get your head around this one than it was to do so with Tombola, 
which means that maybe it's less adventurous overall, but it has more of 
what I want from a spacerock band. Actually WCTL sounds like it should have 
come out BEFORE Tombola, because to my ears it sounds very much like an 
intermediate step or a cross between the purer spacerock of SJU and the 
more progressive song-based stuff on Tombola. I suspect that with further 
listening I am going to prefer this one to Tombola by a significant margin. 
YMMV of course.

Stephan