Motorpsycho - The Gaia II Space Corps (Yellow flame vinyl) (LP)

Motorpsycho has always been of the opinion that the most interesting stuff happens in any art form before it is formatted and settled. In rock music, this phenomenon peaked in and around 1970, and it is in this period that the best heavy music was made, simply because the rules weren’t set, there were not ropes yet, and there were no clichés to fall back on. The Gaia ll Space Corps is an album of tunes that don’t quite sound like heavy metal or hard rock, but clearly is reaching for some of the same qualities. It is post-psychedelic, pre-metal music, and is probably as close to making a true blue ‘classic hard rock’ album Motorpsycho ever will come. The Gaia ll Space Corps is a short, concise, catchy and exciting album, continuing where Motorpsycho’s Stanley and The Come back left off. The instrumentation is mostly guitars, guitars and some more guitars, but there is quite a bit of singing in there too, and even an occasional keyboard sound or two as well. But mostly this is guitar music that ...well, rocks! Hard!!