The Telescopes
Third Wave

As usual, upon returning home after an intense workday, I can't wait to shut myself in my music room to rejuvenate my limbs, ears, and spirit. What do you do in these cases? You turn on the CD player and insert a work from a band either dear to me or newly discovered and needing understanding, after you've received some tips. Rock? Post Rock? Metal? Trash? Death? Black? Space? Emocore? It depends on the mood. In this regard, I remember having shelved an album some time ago but recently rediscovered. I mentioned earlier a band I'm not very familiar with or need to understand. All right. This work I'm reviewing has been a great discovery for me. It is a work by a band named The Telescopes.

Noticed them live in an underground club in London a few years ago.  I own a work of theirs titled  Third Wave. Quite complicated and definitely impactful on the coronary arteries, in the reverse sense!!! Extremely relaxing!!! Let's say right away that the Telescopes were born in Burton-Upon-Trent, English scene,  back in 1987, and the lineup included Stephen Lawrie on vocals, Joanna Doran on lead guitar, David Fitzgerald on rhythm guitar, Robert Brooks on bass, and Dominic Dillon on drums. Included because later on, there was a decimation. Survived Stephen Lawrie (who would be the genius in this situation) and Joanna Doran. But after this prologue, can we know what kind of music it is? Indeed. It is experimental, electronic, intimate D.O.C. music. At times space rock. At times trip hop. Soft, distant, cosmic voices. A classic ambient work to listen to in the dark with headphones and teleport yourself. Achtung, the voice is present, it's not just ambient!!! Let’s talk about the sound. The best can be discerned from the album's second track, 3D Jesus Ashtray, where it seems like listening to Explosion In The Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros’s Agaetis Byrjun, or The Microphones by Phil Elvrum of Mount Eeerie! Electronics very present, samplers front and center, space music, as if from a distant planet They study our movements to the sound of their music. But that’s not all. This is the beauty. In tracks like A Good Place To Hide there is a rich presence of trumpets and double bass that have nothing to do with the rest of the album.  A piece that came from space. A spy story turned into sound. In the episode When Nemo Sank The Nautilus, (wonderful) after the beginning, it sounds like listening to Mojave 3 of Excuses For Travellers accompanied by Iceburn and their alternative fusion jazz. Winter 2!!! Beautiful song. I dream of hearing them on stage with L'Altra. In the penultimate piece, The Atoms Of The Sea, it feels like being in the presence of the Heliogabale’s sound of Mobile Home.  It may not be a record that made history, that sold millions, that influenced immensely, but it’s a work to bow to and...telescopically glimpse emotions from here to light years away...