HUMAN EYE - They Came From The Sky

Last year's interlude of "Rise of the Green Gorilla", with the side-project Timmy's Organism, showed a Timmy "Vulgar" Lampinen as grotesque and cocky as ever, but essentially harmless. So it was natural to await this latest dispatch under the Human Eye banner (the band with which he has certainly achieved his finest results in terms of freak-space-garage) to gauge his current form.

"They Came From The Sky", the Detroit outfit's third album, adds little or nothing to their formula, continuing, among other things, to explore intergalactic life, human-alien relations and a whole imaginary world revolving around horror movies, B-movies included. Yet there's no denying the appeal of these dazed, deranged and orgiastic jams, in which anything can happen from one moment to the next, swerving dangerously only to find themselves back on intergalactic highways, where aliens drive on the wrong side of the road and asteroids hurtle by more frenzied than ever.

The psychedelic impact thus translates into a form of altered visionary quality ("Brain Zip (Kickin' Back in the Electric Chair)"), setting a collision course with the space trips of Hawkwind ("Impregnate the Martian Queen Pt. 2", which boasts more pronounced percussion work thanks to the use of congas) and with the sacred MC5–Stooges pairing (the infernal, propulsive "Junkyard Heart"). The more hypnotic side of their art, meanwhile, is emphasized by "The Movie Was Real" and, in part, by "Serpent Shadow" too.

The six minutes of the closing title track, on the other hand, condense all the ingredients of a sound that has by now matured, able to be recognized among a thousand others precisely for its knack of turning revivalism into an act of total transfiguration.

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30/05/2011