Review: The Movements 'For Sardines Space Is No Problem'

The Movements have puzzled and intrigued these pages. Their latest release, 'For Sardines Space Is No Problem' is a journey into some seriously heavy cosmic rock. To say that this new album may be aimed at hairy men is something of an understatement. Put this on in front of a lady who you've just got back to your house and she'll neck her coffee in a second flat, scorching her throat, just to get out of the area as fast as she can.

Yessir, this is prog-krautrock to skin up to and trip along some fantastic voyage in your mind, maaan.

From the nonsense title, right down to the small essay in the album cover about Christer Fuglesang, the first Swede in space, to the long drawn out relentless krautrock, to the freaky Europrog, this LP is all about the beard and the vibe.

In places, it shares a mood with Pink Floyd's 'Meddle' LP, with those kinda cold-eyed comedown vocals through a Leslie cab... in other places, sounds like Neu! or Can in languid mode. Then there's 'Mother, Some Day I'm Going To Be An Astronaut' which is a 3000mph bug-eyed, acid casualty freak-out jam session, complete with ambulance and blissed-out end-sequence in the ward.

Review this LP is nigh-on impossible... suffice to say... if you dig European prog, especially from around Germany, you'll love this shit. I did. I've got a beard. [MG]

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[Fuglesang]

For the Fuglesang inclined, there's also this weird ep, from 2006. http://fangbomb.com/FB002/index.html