The Telescopes
Taste

The English band The Telescopes in 1989 with their debut LP "Taste" released one of the best and wildest debut albums of the time.

Let's look at the ingredients: 3 guitars, a dry and simple rhythm section, a voice perpetually covered by the music. Add PSYCOCANDY, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, LOOP, SPACEMEN 3 STOOGES. Mix it all with a good dose of Shoegaze, a pinch of spacerock and you have "Taste" in all its wild splendor.

It starts with the atmospheric "AND LET ME DRIFT AWAY" very SPACEMEN 3, which doesn't remotely hint at what's to follow. In fact, starting from "I FALL, SHE SCREAM" an unprecedented sound magma of violence pours out from the speakers, a true sonic assault that leaves no doubt about the nature of the group. An abnormal wave of white noise, obsessive and omnipresent wah-wahs, a voice on the brink of hysteria. There is not a moment of pause. You'll finish the album out of breath with the amount of energy this wall of sound transmits. I can't imagine them live.

They are still active, they have modified their sound but they have never taken us back to the stormy heights of "Taste".

Do yourself a favor, put this record on the turntable, turn the volume all the way up. Half the neighborhood will scream, but in the end, you will emerge purified from the burnout of modern life. Forget the famous artichoke-based liquor.