Inspired by the same subject as Laurie Anderson’s Amelia album earlier this year, a the experimental news archive-digging British rock group formed by J Willgoose Esq return by paying tribute to the pioneering female American aviator Amelia Earhart, With fewer resources available than some of the band’s previous documentary subjects, there are still voice excerpts and clever production tricks to age the sounds and capture Earhart’s indomitable spirit in what was very much a male world. PSB’s signature style is pumping, proggy, energetic krautrock with archive clips, but there’s variety of genre across this release. Standouts include the exciting surge of energy of Towards The Dawn, Earhart’s love of her new aircraft, on Electra, but particularly also the contrasting, more serene, folk style of The South Atlantic featuring the beautiful voice and co-songwriting of guest This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables. The Fun Of It [fearuing Andreya Casablanca], and A Different Kind of Love (with Eera) espand on Amelia quotes, less a sense of Earhart’s endeavours in action, but the drama and danger is very much rendered in the stormy dark, Monsoons, and closing Howland atmsopherically peters out into radio and other unidentifed sounds to dramatise her disappearance during that fateful round the world flight in the summer of 1937. An extraordinary woman, and another great subject. Out on So Recordings.
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