Big Blood – Operate Spaceship Earth Properly LP

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“Our lastBig Bloodrelease was the idiosyncraticAnt Farm,ColleenandCaleb‘s collaboration with the late composerElliott Schwartz, which presented music designed for a museum installation. WithOperate Spaceship Earth Properly, Big Blood return to the vast universe of strangeness they explore inside their own skin. Now fully incorporating the vocals and guitar of their daughterQuinnisa(previously a ‘secret weapon’ unveiled mostly at live shows, as theDictatorsonce did withHandsome Dick Manitoba), Big Blood sound nutsier and wilder than ever.Spaceship Earthis a massively psychedelic investigation of science fiction, science fact and the mythic spot where they reconcile. Specifically referring to the work of writers such asOctavia Butler,Ursula K. Le GuinandBuckminster Fuller, the music mixes the thunder of riff-thuggery with vocals beamed in from planetComusand beat-slaps equally indebted to the Purple Revolutionary and the Neue Deutsche Welle. The combination is head-spinning and gloriously original but will be immediately identifiable as Big Blood by anyone who knows the band’s music. I mean, it’s so freaking strange and so freaking Maine, who else could it be?” —Byron Coley, 2018