Tyko - Further Transmissions From The Biosphere FLAC

Tyko Italy Best Kept Secret Shoegaze Dream Pop 2003

Genre:	Rock
Performer:	Tyko
Title:	Further Transmissions From The Biosphere
Style:	Shoegaze, Dream Pop
Date of release:	08 Nov 2003
Label:	Best Kept Secret
Catalog Number:	LIE 072
Country:	Italy
FLAC album size:	2208 mb
MP3 album size:	2008 mb

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Tracklist

1	Portrait In Letters	3:13
2	Telstar	5:47
3	Elastic Brain	3:04
4	Central Image	8:51
5	We Still Sigh	4:23
6	Juniper	3:15
7	Saturn 5	4:01
8	Environmental Forgery #1	1:00
9	Planet One	3:59
10	Floating	3:45
11	Galactic Thing	2:53
12	Northern Sky	3:04
13	Summertime Comeback	3:49
14	Weekends Go So Fast	2:23
15	Kids In The Biosphere	4:06
16	Light Cycle	1:46
17	Pills For A Dream	1:49
18	Environmental Forgery #2	4:12
19	Communication Laser #17	2:36
20	My Front Lawn Is A Landing Strip	4:35

Credits

Drums – Alex Daniels
Guitar [Space], Synthesizer [Roland JP 8000] – Matt Kesner
Vocals, Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Beverly Blann
Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer [Moog] – Kevin Blagg

Notes

Tracks 1 to 8 originally released on the Tyko - Transmissions From The Biosphere CD (TYKO3388).
Tracks 9 to 20 previously unreleased.

All songs recorded at Digital Love Machines Studio and The Biosphere, Fayetteville, AR 2002-2003.

Continuous track-numbering on release.

Companies

Recorded At – The Biosphere, Fayetteville, AR
Recorded At – Digital Love Machine Studios

Voodoosida

Well if you don't mind cassettes (and there's no reason you should) then you might want to check out Further Transmissions From The Biosphere. Released on the excellent Italian cassette only label, Best Kept Secret, side A of this set includes all 8 songs from the original CD release, and side B consists of 12 unreleased tunes. Some of the unreleased tracks are a bit more on the lo-fi side, which is very much in keeping with Best Kept Secret releases. But it does show a more stripped down side of Tyko that may lack the fuller, enveloping feel of the original Biosphere album, but still demonstrates what solid songwriters Tyko are. There's also plenty of spaced out fun, and while I lost track of which song was which, there was one particularly alien UFO instrumental that jumped out at me, which is followed by a cool downbeat sci-fi rhythmic track. Overall there's lots of nice tunes here, some of which have real possibilities if fleshed out a bit more and with better sound. But having immersed myself in 3 Tyko releases for this review I enjoyed hearing this rawer edged side of the band.

Jerry Kranitz
Aural Innovations 2004