The Time And Space Machine - Set Phazer to Stun (Tirk) **** (From Richmond and Twickenham Times)

The Time And Space Machine - Set Phazer to Stun (Tirk) ****

3:00pm Friday 12th March 2010 in

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WHEN you’re as steeped in the backwaters of British proto-psychedelia as former Bam Caruso label compiler Richard Norris is, there has to come a time when the music must talk. And it’s talking pretty loudly here as Norris takes a break from any residual Grid activities and messing about with Erol Alkan in BTWS.

Opener, Time And Space sounds like a lost Charlatans cut, while dense organ and ear shredding guitar pep up Path Through the Cathedral, kraut-rock drums propel Set Phazer To Stun and Children of the Sun messes with your mind in glo-fi territory, building to the sitar-seasoned Mushroom Family and a balearic-flavoured cover of Neil Young’s After the Goldrush.

The Time And Space Machine will make mincemeat of your preconceptions.