Never since the Beatles have i heard an English band use Sitars and Tablas with such facility. On Pigs, Peasants and Astronauts ( Columbia Records), Kula Shaker forks over a slab of psychedelic schizophrenia that scares( in a good way) as well as thrills. This album sums up the entire universe in 12 songs. Everything from Love ( Shower your Love), Hope ( Great Hosannah), Anguish ( 108 Battles of the Mind), Fear (Time-Worm), Anger (S.O.S). This would be the perfect album to listen to if you were the Silver Surfer. The album spans the gamete of human emotion and the production of the album spans the gamete of the human mind.
But even if you strip away all the "Frills and Lillies", you are left with a band that can really tear it up. Crispian Mills is a fantastic songwriter and gifted guitarist, Jay Darlington (On this album) p absolutely sublime organ with rolls and waves of a thick hammond sound. The Rhythm section of Alonza Bevan(bass) and Paul Winterhart(drums) is rock solid, with both musicans keeping a very tight groove and keeping all fills extremely tasteful.
The production of this album is great but it is not what makes the album great. These songs are great songs and even if everything was stripped away, you would still be left with great songs. Pigs Peasants and Astronauts is an album that stands up to repeated listens and actually gets better with time because there is something new to hear every time you listen to it.
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