Many years ago – it was probably 2003 ’cause for sure I was still living in Bologna – Stephen Lawrie from The Telescopes gave me a VHS Tape with official videos and rarities from the Creation golden age. I have no idea now in the digital era about how to watch it again, although it is well stored, but it wouldn’t be surprising and neither out of place to find out a video from LSD and The Search for God in between My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and Ride. So, are we talking of mere revivalism? It depends on the point of view. If you’re searching for God, better to take a stroll into Heaven, and Heaven is a place “where nothing ever happens”. There are not watches, calendars or agendas amongst the clouds, not even hourglasses, it can be imagined. It’s an eternal state of ecstasy and blessed contemplation over there. And these sounds, these rising guitars, these shoegazing loops, these celestial female vocals floating around, it’s ecstasy indeed. Do we really need to put them under the fake test of time passing? Should we consider them less delightful because it’s not 1995? Time is just a human invention, and I’m quite sure that if I’d have a way to play that VHS again I’d find out that God made one of his tricks – a minor miracle just for fun – adding an LSD and The Search for God song to the playlist.
And it would sound just perfectly heavenly.
“Heaven Is a Place EP” comes out on January 15th on Deep Space Recordings, nine years after the San Francisco’s band debut, and with a full European tour scheduled in March.
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