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01. Object Collection - Full Contrast
02. Object Collection - Human, Humans
03. Object Collection - Wow
04. Object Collection - Ships
05. Object Collection - Total Trance
06. Object Collection - Up Up Up Up Up Up
07. Object Collection - In The Work Collective
08. Object Collection - Back To The Planet
09. Object Collection - Rainbow Dress
10. Object Collection - Revolutionary Goals
11. Object Collection - More Hospitable Than Antarctica Might Be
12. Object Collection - What About Our Aesthetics
13. Object Collection - Look At Television
14. Object Collection - New Suns
15. Object Collection - Death Is Dead
16. Object Collection - Wild And Shimmering
17. Object Collection - Thinking About Equations
18. Object Collection - An Unrestriction Of Space
ARTIST
TITLE
You Are Under Our Space Control
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SLP 054LP SLP 054LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/2/2019

Following their acclaimed opera-in-suspension about Fugazi, NYC's Object Collection imagine a delirium of transhuman thought and progressive politics on their return to the inimitable Slip label. You Are Under Our Space Control sees the duo of Kara Feely (text) and Travis Just (music) refocus their "operatic" sensibilities into a typically confounding "space-opera" that somehow ties up references as wide reaching as John Cage's piano solo Music Of Changes (1951), with Cy Roth's sci-fi Fire Maidens From Outer Space from the same year, as well as texts inspired by Sun Ra and the Russian Cosmists' poetics and philosophies, and interviews from real (and imagined) space travelers and astronomers. Aye, it's a proper headful of ideas, and understandably chaotic with it, but OC makes a virtue of somehow maintaining a coherence though their sharply chopped arrangements, which start out tightly puckered, but gradually loosen up into sprawling, psychedelic designs as the album proceeds. What happens in its 18 parts is comparable to a sort of home-brewed sci-fi soundtrack imagined by a teenaged dream-team of Todd Dockstader, Bruce Haack, and Sonny Blount; a sound full of mercurial wormholes, with an animist capacity to rouse arcane spirits, and a magnetic pull to the most restlessly searching listeners of the weird and wonderful. Most crucially, for an album rooted in '50s sci-fi and avant-garde, the results prize that era's modernist promise without coming off as retrogressive or corny.