| Artist: | First Band from Outer Space |
| Title: | We're Only In It For The Spacerock |
| Label: | Transubstans Trans 008 |
| Length(s): | 57 minutes |
| Year(s) of release: | 2005 |
| Month of review: | [12/2005] |
| 1) | Begin To Float (intro) | 4.43 |
| 2) | Sannraijz | 9.55 |
| 3) | Sometimes Going Too Far Is The Only Way To Go | 7.10 |
| 4) | Sannraijz II | 4.42 |
| 5) | We're Only In It For The Spacerock | 20.16 |
| 6) | Make Yourself Heard For The Sake Of The World | 10.36 |
One of the dangers of these elongated tracks is that they might saunter off towards meanderville. The vocal Sannraijz -despite its length- manages to prevent this from happening (as does its second coming). However, the appropriately titled Sometimes Going Too Far Is The Only Way To Go does exactly that. The lengthy mid section of this one really loses the plot, relocating it only after some minutes, when led out by the vocal guide.
The title track starts up rather slowly, with very laid back guitar on a backdrop of a multitude of space sounds. It takes over four minutes before the guitar starts developing some kind of melodic action, but even then the build up remains slow. About halfway through we get some fuzzy guitar, adding some spice, and at three quarters we almost get some tension. But not nearly enough to result in a tasty whole. At the end of the day there really isn't enough melodic idea wrapped into this track, not nearly enough for twenty minutes.
Closer Make Yourself Heard -like the Sannraijz's- is another vocal track, and with the added flute it is easily more exciting than its predecessor: there's rock, there's some positively directed aggression and even some Spanish guitar.