Flying Saucer Attack
Further

No, I haven't taken acid or herbs to embark on this relaxing journey. All I needed was to crank up in my headphones the third release from the incredible Flying Saucer Attack to disconnect that plug that ties us to the so-called 'real' world.

Do you know that world made of constant annoyances and stress? Work, fatigue, others' chatter (rarely benevolent), unbearable people, boredom in abundance, and all the ingredients well described by thinkers ranging from Schopenhauer to Montale? I don’t want to flaunt a cultural background like a schoolboy just graduated from a Magistral Institute or Classical High School (in fact, I attended night school), I just want to suggest something that can provide a small barrier against the overwhelming of the two greatest existential monsters: pain and boredom.

With Flying Saucer Attack, indeed, we enter into another dimension, even if only for the duration of the album, and what usually seems ugly, filthy, and unbearable disappears as if by magic.

I found a similar magic ONLY in the albums of bands such as Dead Can Dance and Slowdive. More similar to the latter, Flying offers us a remarkable album of shoegaze with ambient and psychedelic hues.

But let's say it once and for all: labels can take a hike here! The music is subtle, sometimes markedly distorted, but always ready to reconcile us with the tranquility of our deepest being, hidden and seemingly unexplorable.

Do we want to suggest that these are just simple songs? No way! The ethereal beauty of compositions named "In The Light Of Time," "Come And Close My Eyes," or "Still Point" transcends the "pop" format to draw us further away from the worldliness in which we find ourselves immersed.

The album is from 1995 but, in the opinion of the writer, it could have been composed just yesterday. The temporal dimension, like the spatial one, holds no significance here.