Band : Life On Earth
Album Title : A Space Water Loop
Label : Subliminal Records
Distributor : Clearspot
Release Date : October 2009
Review : CD

Dreamy vocals, acoustic guitars and hazy vibes provide a shroomy atmosphere that embrace you with a comfortable warmth that makes the time fly by. Life On Earth, a project of Dungen’s bass player Mattias Gustavsson, comfortably wraps itself in the sounds of the 60s/70s psych folk/pop. The ten tracks are varied, including competent stabs at country-gospel ("The gospel of the sun”), fairly conventional pop/rock ("We know”), organ lead baroque (“Apart”)  acoustic soft psych (“There and then”, “The forest pond song”) and even weird experiental ("Watching the shadows”). Matthias has a nice voice (occasionally recalling Oyvind Holm) And while the songs are all pretty good, they lack that extra step that would take them toward greatness. A little more creativity might have helped: a wild guitar solo, unexpected tempo changes, vocal acrobatics,…

Sure, it won't change my life on earth, but it's an album I’ll keep in the occasional play pile.

Peter.