Only a few days ago I wrote about The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster that mixes rock, punk, rockabilly and goth in their sound. Now I've stumbled upon a band that combines krautrock, shoegazing, psychedelic rock and electro just as wildly and successfully.
We Fell To Earth released their debut album already about a year ago but I didn't discover them until last spring. And for some peculiar reason it took me almost a year to realise just what I had encountered.
Yeah, I know. Sometimes I'm so slow it's embarrassing. But hey, better late than never, right? Right?
Anyways, We Fell To Earth consists of two persons: Richard File who used to play in UNKLE and Wendy Rae Fowler who used to be connected to the extended family of musicians playing in QOTSA, Desert Sessions, Eagles Of Death Metal and whatnot. The two camps have met before already and collaborated a couple of times (on previous UNKLE records, for instance) but We Fell To Earth shouldn't be treated as an extension to those collaborations. It's a band with a distict sound and voice of its own - a voice that's eerie, atmospheric and outlandish. At times creepy as well.
For someone who used to love trance music back in the 90's (yeah, I did go to raves and danced til dawn, sometimes even with glowsticks in my hands, if you must know) but later fell in love with 70's psychedelic and krautrock it's a match made in heaven.
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