One of my favourite obscure records, very Crimson-esque in a way; Black Sunshine reminds me a lot of ITCOTCK track 1.
I don't truly know what to say... Truly one of the greatest albums of all time! Hammill and the gang soar to new heights with this one. I've listened to so many Hammill solo projects that I've managed to forget how cool his sci-fi stuff is. This has perhaps the best written songs out of the entire vintage VdGG catalogue.
Steve Hillage justifies his wizard status once again! Very smooth gituar, brought to you by the aformentioned wizard.
Heavy as fuck, 1969?!?!?!?! Not a huge fan of track 4, but the rest are incredible. People, this was recorded before ITCOTCK!
Incredibly dark and edgy but somehow endearing at the same time. Not a single bad track, and every one of them put Hammills incredible songwriting front and centre. I've spent too many hours on sofasound dot com pouring though the words and I'm amazed every time I do, because I find a new interpretation of Gog each time.
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