The track is just the credits played through a robot voice. The rest of the album is great though. Man or Astroman? started to push their sound a little further than just the double picked guitar sound of the earlier records.
Man or Astroman? has been one of my standby favorites since the early 90's. This surfer/sci fi guitar heavy band with fun samplings from B movies will definitely appeal to the nerd in all of you. After hearing this album two times through, my gut feeling is that their earlier work was better. Their guitars are getting harder and somehow more muddied, while the movie samplings at the start of songs are feeling formulaic. Still, they are infinitely fun, the kind of cd you can leave in your car stereo and have it cycle through again and again. For them, it is not about one or two great songs, it is about their entire style that keeps you listening.
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
