Careful With That Axe, Eugene

VINYL FORMAT. After something of a hiatus, Slow To Speak returns with a new round of highly-limited, hand silk-screened 12" showcases, the project's resumption heralded by the ever-brilliant cosmic abstractions of space-rock demigods Pink Floyd. Emerging from the belly of the United Kingdom's psychedelic scene, the baby of seedy London nightclub gigging, drug induced psychic-alteration and an uncanny attraction to the musical decoding of extraterrestrial majesty lost and rediscovered, Pink Floyd redefined rock music during the cultural revolutions of the late 1960s. Their visionary and unique equations worked out the precise art of expansionist and heady free rock sound, arriving on the scene at the precise historical moment for their strange visions to be received with open arms -- at the peak of the first wave of psychedelia. The band itself forged a large part of this new culture out of their own strange fantasies, complete with far-reaching thematic punctuations that define the aura and mystique of a true psych-rock pioneer. As the 1970s proceeded, their sound quickly strayed from the path of uncompromising cosmic invention towards the arguably more egotistical meanderings of progressive rock, but much of their early work remains quintessential staples of the kraut-minded cannon. 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene' and 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' are obligatory lessons of a proper space-rock education, shining examples of the UK pioneers' limitless early ambition that still fuels the heroic myth of these baffling immortals of transcendental medium-ship and timeless cosmic foresight. A blueprint for four decades of psychedelic experimentations to follow, these early specimens of Pink Floyd's finest hour weather the passing of transient culture's constantly rotating billboard, remaining monuments of rock history and units of measurement for future psychedelia's brave new explorations into universes and dimensions waiting to be unearthed by the innovators of the light.