Litmus - Planetfall (2007)

Second full-length, released through Rise Above (promo version)/ Candlelight records.

'First track “Destroy The Mothership” sums up the entire album perfectly. A wash of spacey synths attempts to swallow up driving guitars, drums, and neat-o melodic bass lines while blue-collar vocals yelp sci-fi infused lyrics above the din. Oh, and did I mention that it will flatten you? Exhilarating? Oh yes! It’s like they bottled the energy of early Motörhead (a really easy reference in a review that mentions Hawkwind, I know), mixed it up with some of the harder moments from Levitation, and injected a slightly prog-minded artiness into the rockin’.  And then, just when all of that has sunk in, “Tempest” kicks in and lays the previous track to waste, taking its best moments and amping everything up even further. In fact, that’s the trend that Litmus seems to fall into on Planetfall, as each full song (discounting the segues, of course) bests the one before it and even the fifteen minute “Under the Sign” and the seventeen minute “Expanding Universe (Twinstar Pt. 2)” don’t let up, laying solid solos on top of sometimes driving, sometimes grooving, sometimes pulsating bases that always get the foot a-tapping and the adrenaline a-rushing.' -Full review here

Physical needs: ATIH/ Amazon

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