Further

Flying Saucer Attack | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 1995)
• Original Release Date: April 17, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B0000019QH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,027 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese edition adds three bonus tracks, 'Bare Trees', 'Sally Free & Easy' & 'Three Seas'. 11 tracks in total. Standard jewelcase. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Less noise + more space = great results, September 22, 2000

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J. Rossi (Downers Grove, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Further (Audio CD)

FSA's first self-titled album was an amalgam of My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Velvet Underground, and a little bit of Suicide. Put bluntly: it was loaded with distortion/reverb, and it was as loud as the runway at an airport. For Further, Dave Pearce has put some breathing room in his songs. Instead of dousing everything in reverb, he uses acoustic guitars on almost every song, giving the album an organic feel. "In the Light of Time" starts off innocently enough, but slowly the noise starts to push through the cracks and by the end dominates the song, and it's gorgeous. Many of the songs fit this bill, but it doesn't sound formulaic. I don't know for certain, but it sounds like Dave Pearce may have spent some time with his Brian Eno albums, because there is a definite organic ambience that is very soothing. Further is very easy to listten to, but demands patience. If you give it a chance, it will graft itself to your brain and take up residence there.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moodier than usual, and every bit as good!, June 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Further (Audio CD)

This is clearly a departure from the typical FSA sound, with lots of acoustic guitars and more slow songs. The sound of rain is constantly to be heard in the background, and it sets the mood perfectly. As mentioned, the songs are mainly built around an acoustic guitar and the silent singing typical for FSA. But behind the beautiful songs are several layers of distortion that grows in an almost organic way, constantly threatening to break through the calm, creating an overwhelming wall of noise - there's a lot of tension in the music. All in all, this is one of the best albums ever recorded, mainly because of the combination between beauty and chaos. A must buy, especially if you like FSA's other releases!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the Most Beautiful Album Ever by Anybody, April 2, 2006

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LHB (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Further (Audio CD)

It's hard for me not to engage in hyperbole when talking about Flying Saucer Attack. Each of their albums reaches a very deep place that no other music, including classical, comes close to. This is David Pearce's most beautiful album, so beautiful that it's very difficult for me to listen to. As someone once said "The problem with beauty isn't finding it, it's bearing it." Other reviews of this album stress it's greater reliance on acoustic instruments and more conventional melodies than their first album. Maybe so, but the conventional melodies are unspeakably beautiful and like nothing I've ever heard before, and they tend to be nestled in as awesome a bed of ecstatic, shimmering noise as anything in fsa's catalog. "She is the Daylight" ends the album, after the three more intense pieces that proceed it, on a note of wistful tenderness that might remind you of what it really felt like when you first fell in love. Somebody, please play this at my funeral.