It has been more than a decade since we officially heard from the Bristol pop duo. A few sightings of them keep popping up in music once in a while, yet it is not the same during their active years. Each passing of years without them has their name buried down in the recesses of musical history and rings only with a faint echo of those who happen to know them. And as the new era of music surfaced from the rise of boy bands in the middle of the 1990s to the present alterations of what we considered mainstream music, all has almost forgotten the Flying Saucer Attack. Who are they again?
FSA emerged in 1992 composed of David Pearce and his then girlfriend Rachel Brook. The musical community was quite unsure what to call them. Post-rock? Avant-rock? Shoegazers? What marked the band is their way of recording. Vinyls are their first material with most of their songs recorded outside the studio and in the confines of their homes instead. With hushed vocals and strums of guitar, driving the music forward, their outputs skipped out the conventional creating mystique around their music and persona. And the air of mystery has not left FSA, which you can hear in Instrumental 2015.
By 1996, Rachel Brook left the band to concentrate on her other project. The two-man team whittles down to David Pearce alone. But the FSA is still FSA despite being alone. After a 15-year hiatus, David Pearce released FSA’s comeback album entitled Instrumentals 2015. It also marked the second phase of FSA after the first ended the same year of Rachel Brook’s departure.
Instrumentals 2015 lasts less than an hour with the 15 tracks called only “Instrumental 1,” Instrumental 2,” and so on. The track ranges from seconds (Instrumental 6) to nearly 10 minutes (Instrumental 15). Despite the shift in music, FSA still retained their signature sound yet baring it down even more. The guitar plays the major role in the album with the vocals almost nonexistent.
The album paints a somber mood from the beginning to end with a few tracks breaking the flow of austere pieces.
Instrumentals 2015 is a cohesive album, understated, yet refreshing in this era where the trend is “the more, the better.”
LISTEN:
Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumental 4 (Official Audio)
Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumental 7
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