(And I could definitely have done without the 'Space Kids' add-on maybe I just didn't get the cultural reference, but I'd rather have Captain Kremmen.There is more than one artist with this name.ġ) Flat Earth Society was founded in 1998, when no-nonsense artist, former architect, clarinettist, saxophonist, keyboard player, composer and producer Peter Vermeersch, wanted to explore new horizons after having convinced music lovers all over the word with Maximalist! and the cult legend band X-legged Sally. Worth a listen, but a little too 'flat' for me. All in all, an album whose ambition outstrips its invention, which ambles along in its pleasant, minimally varying groove, but which hardly belongs in the same company as its more adventurous contemporaries. I did like the middle section's genuinely interesting attempts at something grander, but the last track, 'Satori', I found pretentious and boring. 'Feelin' Much Better' would have made a decent hit single, but nonetheless sounds like The Mamas & The Papas meets Jefferson Airplane without thoroughly convincing in either direction. 'In The Midnight Hour', for example, sounds more like a palely blissed-out afternoon in the park than the night of steamy, gutsy passion evoked by the original, while 'When You're There' is sub-Dylan/Buckley/Hardin etc. It's by no means awful, and I enjoyed parts of it but it didn't "grab me", as some of the other lost classics in the same vein, such as those by The Millennium and The Mandrake Memorial. While I love the conceit behind it - a promotional album for Waleeco chocolate bars - I expected to find it a bit more 'chocolatey' or perhaps even 'fruity'. This is one of the many hidden psychedelic gems I discovered via The Mojo Collection - but it is not one of my favourites.
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