The Spacelords - Liquid Sun

7.0 - Germany - 2016

A somewhat uneven mixed bag of heavy psychedelic rock. Of the three lengthy tracks, only one really works. Fortunately, it's the longest, taking up a whole side of this space rock opus. The album opener, "Liquid Sun" itself, starts out well-enough with some spacey-guitar and some nifty synths: you know, the one's that go "neeee-yyeee-wwwooommmmm". Problem is, it doesn't really go anywhere for its thirteen minutes and change runtime. It's not that repetition is a bad thing, but this track stays stuck in a mode that is neither mellow and spacey nor heavy and rocking. You keep expecting an assault of monstrous psych fuzz to come bursting in, but it never does, leaving the listener somewhat blue-balled.  "Spaceship Breakdown" fares a little better: it is shorter and quite heavier, but the riffs are a little hackneyed. On the the finale, "Black Hole", however, things finally come together with a slow-building dynamism that moves through various different stages of hardrockingness. Damned good track, well worth skipping over the others for.